Tocqueville and Beaumont Aristocratic Liberalism in Democratic Times /

• Main Author: Hess, Andreas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Sociology.; Historical sociology.; Political sociology.; Social Theory.; Sociological Theory.; Historical Sociology.; Political Sociology.

This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: A Two-Man Research Machine
• 2. The Birth Pangs of American Democracy
• 3. In Search of New Liberal Politics: Reconciling Equality with Liberty
• 4. Republican by Necessity: The Revolution of 1848 and Beyond
• 5. What Remains?