by Arthur Goldhammer (Translator), Arthur Goldhammer (Translator), Lucien Jaume (Author)
Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Edition: Translation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 24 Mar 2013
ISBN 10: 0691152047
ISBN 13: 9780691152042