Alexis de Tocqueville

by Alan S. Kahan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623564384
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/07/2013
Series:	Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	203 KB

About the Author

Dr Kahan is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism (Oxford, 1992) and Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe (Palgrave, 2003). He was also co-editor of The Tocqueville Reader (Wiley, 2002).
Alan S. Kahan is Professor of British Civilization at the Université de Versailles/St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, and a member of the faculty at Sciences Po St. Germain-en-Laye, France. He is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism (1992), Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003), Alexis de Tocqueville (2010) in Bloomsbury's Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series and Mind versus Money: The War Betwen Intellectuals and Capitalism (2010).

Table of Contents

Part I / 1 Biography / Part II. / 2 The Essential Tocqueville / 3 Democracy and Freedom in America / 4 Democracy and Freedom in France / 5 Democracy and Freedom Elsewhere / 6 Democracy, Freedom, and Poverty / 7 Tocqueville, the Neo-Liberal / Part III / 8 Tocqueville and his Readers / Part IV / 9 Tocqueville Today / Part V/ Works Cited / Annotated Bibliography / Index