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BL
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632494
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| Uniform Title
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Tocqueville.English
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| Main Entry
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Jaume, Lucien.
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| Title & Author
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Tocqueville : : the aristocratic sources of liberty /\ Lucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, 2013.
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347 p. ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780691152042 (acid-free paper)
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: 0691152047 (acid-free paper)
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| Notes
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Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la liberté biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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What did Tocqueville mean by "democracy"? -- Attacking the French tradition : popular sovereignty redefined in and through local liberties -- Democracy as modern religion -- Democracy as expectation of material pleasures -- Tocqueville as sociologist -- In the tradition of Montesquieu : the state-society analogy -- Counterrevolutionary traditionalism : a muffled polemic -- The discovery of the collective -- Tocqueville and the Protestantism of his time: the insistent reality of the collective -- Tocqueville as moralist -- The moralist and the question of l'honnte -- Tocqueville's relation to Jansenism -- Tocqueville in literature: democratic language without declared authority -- Resisting the democratic tendencies of language -- Tocqueville in the debate about literature and society -- The great contemporaries : models and countermodels -- Tocqueville and Guizot : two conceptions of authority -- Tutelary figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand.
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"Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book. For Tocqueville, America was a mirror for France, a way for Tocqueville to write indirectly about his own society, to engage French thinkers and debates, and to come to terms with France's aristocratic legacy."--
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Tocqueville, Alexis de,1805-1859.
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Historians-- France, Biography.
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Democracy-- Philosophy.
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Political science-- France-- History-- 19th century.
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| LC Classification
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DC36.98.T63J3813 2008
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Goldhammer, Arthur.
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