Tocqueville between two worlds : the making of a political and theoretical life / Sheldin S Wolin.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ Pr, 2001.

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de Tocqueville, Alexis, -- 1805-1859.

Political science.

Political science -- History.

Part one: The Abundance of power: Chapter I: Modern theory and modern power

Chapter II: Theoria: the theoretical journey

Part two: Encountering the amazing: Chapter III: Discovering democracy

Chapter IV: Self and structure

Chapter V: Doubt and disconnection

Chapter VI: ....the theory of what is great

Chapter VII: Myth and political impressionism

Chapter VIII: The Spectacle of America

Part three: The Theoretical encapsulation of America: Chapter IX: Social contract versus political culture

Chapter X: The Culture on the political: the rituals of practice

Chapter XI: Feudal America

Chapter XII: Majority rule or majority politics

Chapter XIII: Centralization and dissolution

Chapter XIV: The Image of democracy

Part four: Persona and the politics of theory

Chapter XV: Tragic hero, popular mask

Chapter XVI: The Democratization of culture

Chapter XVII: Despotism and utopia

Chapter XVIII: Old new world, new old world

Chapter XIX: Tocquevillean democracy

Chapter XX: The Penetentiary temptation

Part five: Second journey to America: Chapter XXI: The Political eduation of the bourgeoisie

Chapter XXII: Souvenirs: recollections in/tranquillity

Chapter XXIII: Souvenirs: socialism and the crisis of the political

Chapter XXIV: The Old regime and the revolution: mythistoricus et theoreticus

Chapter XXV: The Old regime: modernization and the politics of loss

Chapter XXVI: Postdemocracy.

Includes index.

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