Wolin Tocqueville between Two Worlds

The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
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Sheldon S. Wolin is Emeritus Professor of Politics, Princeton University. He also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley. His most famous book, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, influenced a generation of political theorists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolin, Sheldon S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

INTRODUCTION 3

PART ONE: THE ABUNDANCE OF POWER 11

CHAPTER I: MODERN THEORY AND MODERN POWER 13

CHAPTER II: Theoria: THE THEORETICAL JOURNEY 34

PART TWO: ENCOUNTERING THE AMAZING 57

CHAPTER III: DISCOVERING DEMOCRACY 59

CHAPTER IV: SELF AND STRUCTURE 76

CHAPTER V: DOUBT AND DISCONNECTION 102

CHAPTER VI: ". THE THEORY OF WHAT IS GREAT" 113

CHAPTER VII: MYTH AND POLITICAL IMPRESSIONISM 132

CHAPTER VIII: THE SPECTACLE OF AMERICA 149

PART THREE: THE THEORETICAL ENCAPSULATION OF AMERICA
CHAPTER IX: SOCIAL CONTRACT VERSUS POLITICAL CULTURE 169

CHAPTER X: THE CULTURE OF THE POLITICAL: "THE RITUALS OF PRACTICE" 202

CHAPTER XI: FEUDAL AMERICA 229

CHAPTER XII: MAJORITY RULE OR MAJORITY POLITICS 241

CHAPTER XIII: CENTRALIZATION AND DISSOLUTION 260

CHAPTER XIV: THE IMAGE OF DEMOCRACY 275

PART FOUR: PERSONA AND THE POLITICS OF THEORY 287

CHAPTER XV: TRAGIC HERO, POPULAR MASK 289

CHAPTER XVI: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURE 304

CHAPTER XVII: DEPOTISM AND UTOPIA 339

CHAPTER XVIII: OLD NEW WORLD, NEW OLD WORLD 365

CHAPTER XIX: TOCQUEVILLEAN DEMOCRACY 374

CHAPTER XX: THE PENITENTIARY TEMPTATION 383

PART FIVE: SECOND JOURNEY TO AMERICA 407

CHAPTER XXI: THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF THE BOURGEOISIE 409 CHAPTER XXII: Souvenirs RECOLLECTIONS IN/TRANQUILLITY 428

CHAPTER XXIII: Souvenirs SOCIALISM AND THE CRISIS OF THE POLITICAL 456

CHAPTER XXIV: The Old Regime and the Revolution: Mythistoricus et theoretieus 498

CHAPTER XXV: The Old Regime: MODERNIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF LOSS 531

CHAPTER XXVI: POSTDEMOCRACY 561

NOTES 573

INDEX 641

Über Autor(innen)

Sheldon S. Wolin is Emeritus Professor of Politics, Princeton University. He also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley. His most famous book, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, influenced a generation of political theorists.