The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville

by Roger Boesche

Overview

The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville places Tocqueville's political though in the context of his time and place, and shows why his ideas defy easy classification. Responding to the twentieth-century tendency to impose anachronistic political categories on Tocqueville, Roger Boesche reminds us that like Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Lamartine, Flaubert, and other writers of his generation, he was a nineteenth-century Frenchman reacting to contemporary French concerns, aspirations, and anxieties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501745515
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	21 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Roger Boesche is Associate Professor of Political Science at Occidental College.