Tocquevillian Ideas

Zbigniew Rau; Marek Tracz-Tryniecki

doi:10.5771/9780761863151

Summary

This book offers a new, European-centered approach to Tocqueville’s thought. Although Tocqueville is often revered as a classic writer on the subject of American democracy, this book focuses on the multifaceted importance of his ideas within a European context. This collection of essays presents Tocqueville’s vision of a diverse and united Old Continent, exploring his ideas of liberty, virtue, religion, patriotism, greatness, civic participation and democracy. These thoughts are analyzed not only in the context of Tocqueville’s output, but also in the light of their potential to describe the dilemmas of contemporary Europe and to offer remedies for its problems.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6314-4
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6315-1
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 171
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. A Prophet No access
2. The American Experience—Unity No access
3. European Experience—Diversity No access
4. The European Idea—Unity No access
5. Tocqueville and the Crisis of the European Integration Project No access
6. Concluding Remarks: Towards a Toquevillean Notion of European Unity No access
7. Notes No access
1. Tocquevillian Liberty No access
2. State, Society and Democracy No access
3. Threats to Liberty in Democracies: Lefort and Richter Readers of Tocqueville No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Political Sociology of Patriotism No access
2. Political Psychology of Patriotism No access
3. Psychology of Patriotism Reconsidered No access
4. Patriotism in Democracy No access
5. In Conclusion: What Do We Learn from Tocqueville? No access
6. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Citizen Participation According to Tocqueville No access
3. Citizen Participation and the Era of Global Capitalism No access
4. Citizen Participation, Nature and the State No access
5. Citizen Participation and the Divine Significance of Democracy No access
6. Citizen Participation and the Heroism of Reason No access
7. Some Further Reflections on Freedom No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Upgraduation of Democracy No access
2. What Is Democracy, and What Is Not No access
3. Individualism—The Ens Completum No access
4. Licentiousness: Lack of Authority, Moral Limits No access
5. Egoism: Privatism and Small and Materialist Joys No access
6. The Multitude No access
7. Resentment, Jarring No access
8. Security Claim No access
9. Collectivist Individualism No access
10. Beautiful Democracy? No access
11. Notes No access
1. The Problem of Modern Civil Society: Freedom vs. Equality No access
2. Religion and Virtue as Conditions of a Free Civil Society No access
3. Catholicism against Protestantism No access
4. Conclusion: Ennobling Democracy No access
5. Notes No access
1. Human Dignity No access
2. Greatness No access
3. Algeria No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 162
Index No access Pages 163 - 166
List of Authors No access Pages 167 - 170
Information on the Alexis de Tocqueville Centre for Political and Legal Thought No access Pages 171 - 171