Selected Studies on Alexis De Tocqueville and America
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Authors
Ramsey, Wayne
Issue Date
1972
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Thesis
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Abstract
Alexis De Tocqueville is the protagonist and muse of this work. He wrote in a time when the lines between disciplines of sociology, political science, and philosophy
were not as clearly drawn as today. But in this total view
of man, society, and history, one can see what should be
called the true "dualism" of de Tocqueville - the distinction
between his analysis and hopes, his expectations and his
ideals. He was a searcher of values and researcher of times.
And when he said he was writing under a kind of dread, we
can begin to understand the struggle the two sides held for
him. His method, if nothing else, was the attempt to join
these two sides, and he called this approach "a new political
science" to face the future. It was a call for prophesy
and plans to change the propheses.
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