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Book Memoir  Letters  and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

Download or read book Memoir Letters and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville written by Alexis de Tocqueville and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alexis de Tocqueville

Download or read book Alexis de Tocqueville written by Alan S. Kahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker.

Book Tocqueville and American Civilization

Download or read book Tocqueville and American Civilization written by Samuel E. Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after Max Lerner completed his comprehensive and influential study, America as a Civilization. he began work on a sustained analysis and assessment of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The result, Tocqueville and American Civilization. ls a primer of Tocqueville's central concepts, as well as a detailed discussion of their meaning in the twentieth century. Originally published 1n 1966, Lerner's study ls a sweeping introduction to both Tocqueville's life and thought. Lerner devotes most of his attention to an exposition of the text. A meditative reading of Tocqueville's landmark work, its strengths and weaknesses. He ls especially adept at explaining Tocqueville's treatment of what he refers to as "master ideas." They include "the idea of democracy," "the idea of revolution." "the idea of a social style and character," and "the idea of history and God and man interacting with each other within the 'fatal circle' of necessity and freedom." Another important issue Lerner discusses ls the fragility of freedom, a concern he shared with Tocqueville. The new introduction by Robert Schmuhl traces the influence of Tocqueville on Lerner, showing how Democracy in America became an abiding point of reference in Lerner's thinking about the United States and the world at large. It was Tocqueville who drew Lerner's attention to the fusion of custom, law, and innovation that has become the hallmark of the American character. As a result, Tocqueville and American Civilization continues to be important for social and political theorists, historians, and scholars of American studies.

Book The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant  Tocqueville  and Lord Acton

Download or read book The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant Tocqueville and Lord Acton written by Ralph Raico and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1970 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theories of Tyranny

Download or read book Theories of Tyranny written by Roger Boesche and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 10 (pp. 381-454), "Fromm, Neumann, and Arendt: Three Early Interpretations of Nazi Germany", discusses the views of Franz Neumann and Hannah Arendt on Nazi antisemitism. Neumann, in his "Behemoth" (1942), stated that the Nazis needed a fictitious enemy in order to unify the completely atomized German society into one large "Volksgemeinschaft". The terrorization of Jews was a prototype of the terror to be used against other peoples. Arendt contends in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951) that it was imperialism which brought about Nazism, Nazi antisemitism, and the Holocaust. Totalitarianism is nothing but imperialism which came home. Insofar as imperialism transcends national boundaries, racism may be very helpful for it, because racism proposes another principle to define the enemy. Jews and other ethnic groups (e.g. Slavs) became easy targets as groups whose claims clashed with those of the expanding German nation. Terror is the essence of totalitarianism, and extermination camps were necessary for the Nazis to prove the omnipotence of their regime and their capability of total domination.

Book Tocqueville  Lieber  and Bagehot

Download or read book Tocqueville Lieber and Bagehot written by D. Clinton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current discussions of liberalism in world affairs tend to take a shortsighted view of the historical antecedents of the school of thought. Most jump directly from Kant to Wilson with little pause in between. In this book, Clinton has selected three thinkers to exemplify developments in the liberal world, all of whom were figures of real consequence in their own time, yet altogether different in temperament and subsequent fashion. Clinton shows how their interests and concerns, both complementary and divergent, make sense of nineteenth-century liberalism without turning it into the rigid doctrine it has never been - and never can be. By using their published works, speeches, and other correspondences, Clinton explores the way they applied their general insights on politics and society to the particular conditions of the international life. In so doing he provides a comparative study of the variants on a distinctively 'liberal' approach to international relations of this period, which may hold lessons for our own time.

Book Orientalism and Islam

Download or read book Orientalism and Islam written by Michael Curtis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Michael Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient. The book also criticizes the misconception that the Orient was the constant victim of Western imperialism and the view that Westerners cannot comment objectively on Eastern and Muslim societies. The book views the European concept of Oriental despotism as based not on arbitrary prejudicial observation, but rather on perceptions of real processes and behavior in Eastern systems of government. Curtis considers how the concept developed and was expressed in the context of Western political thought and intellectual history, and of the changing realities in the Middle East and India. The book includes discussion of the observations of Western travelers in Muslim countries and analysis of the reflections of seven major thinkers: Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, James and John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Max Weber.

Book Tocqueville Unveiled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert T. Gannett
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2003-09-15
  • ISBN : 0226281086
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Tocqueville Unveiled written by Robert T. Gannett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his unprecendented access to Tocqueville's papers, Robert T. Gannett Jr reveals the ingenuity of Tocqueville's analyses of issues such as landownership, administrative centralization, and public opinion in pre-reolutionary France.

Book Tocquevillian Ideas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zbigniew Rau
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 076186315X
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Tocquevillian Ideas written by Zbigniew Rau and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Gospel Its Own Witness

Download or read book The Gospel Its Own Witness written by Stanley Leathes and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Socialism

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  • Author : M. Kaufmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Socialism written by M. Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gideon s Rock  and Other Tales

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  • Author : afterwards COOPER SAUNDERS (Katharine)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Gideon s Rock and Other Tales written by afterwards COOPER SAUNDERS (Katharine) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Words of Faith and Cheer  a Mission of Instruction and Suggestion  Etc

Download or read book Words of Faith and Cheer a Mission of Instruction and Suggestion Etc written by Archer Thompson GURNEY and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Waiting for Tidings

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  • Author : Elizabeth Ashurst Biggs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Waiting for Tidings written by Elizabeth Ashurst Biggs and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Science of Law

Download or read book The Science of Law written by Sheldon Amos and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Questions of Aural Surgery

Download or read book The Questions of Aural Surgery written by James Hinton (Surgeon.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: