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100 1  Jaume, Lucien. 
240 10 Tocqueville.|lEnglish 
245 10 Tocqueville :|bthe aristocratic sources of liberty /
       |cLucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c2013. 
300    347 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques 
       de la liberté biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, 
       c2008. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Part One. What did Tocqueville mean by "democracy"? 
       Attacking the French tradition : popular sovereignty 
       redefined in and through local liberties -- Democracy as 
       modern religion -- Democracy as expectation of material 
       pleasures -- Part Two. Tocqueville as sociologist. In the 
       tradition of Montesquieu : the state-society analogy -- 
       Counterrevolutionary traditionalism : a muffled polemic --
       The discovery of the collective -- Tocqueville and the 
       Protestantism of his time: the insistent reality of the 
       collective -- Part Three. Tocqueville as moralist. The 
       moralist and the question of l'honnte -- Tocqueville's 
       relation to Jansenism -- Part Four. Tocqueville in 
       literature: democratic language without declared 
       authority. Resisting the democratic tendencies of language
       -- Tocqueville in the debate about literature and society 
       -- Part Five. The great contemporaries : models and 
       countermodels. Tocqueville and Guizot : two conceptions of
       authority -- Tutelary figures from Malesherbes to 
       Chateaubriand. 
520    Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville
       as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French 
       aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by 
       what he saw, proceeded to write an American book 
       explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien 
       Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, 
       Democracy in America is best understood as a French book, 
       written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly 
       concerned with France. "America," Jaume says, "was merely 
       a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of 
       France." For Tocqueville, in short, America was a mirror 
       for France, a way for Tocqueville to write indirectly 
       about his own society, to engage French thinkers and 
       debates, and to come to terms with France's aristocratic 
       legacy. By taking seriously the idea that Tocqueville's 
       French context is essential for understanding Democracy in
       America, Jaume provides a powerful and surprising new 
       interpretation of Tocqueville's book as well as a fresh 
       intellectual and psychological portrait of the author. 
       Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of 
       authority in postrevolutionary France, Jaume 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--and who believed that it would be necessary to
       preserve aristocratic values in order to protect liberty 
       under democracy. Indeed, Jaume argues that one of 
       Tocqueville's most important and original ideas was to 
       recognize that democracy posed the threat of a new and 
       hidden form of despotism.--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Tocqueville, Alexis de,|d1805-1859. 
650  0 Democracy|xPhilosophy. 
650  0 Historians|zFrance|vBiography. 
650  0 Political science|zFrance|xHistory|y19th century. 
700 1  Goldhammer, Arthur. 
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