More than kings and less than men : Tocqueville on the promise and perils of democratic individualism / L. Joseph Hebert.

This book explains why Tocqueville saw the central task of modern statesmanship as combating 'individualism, ' a type of civic apathy that he thought capable of robbing modern citizens of human virtue and issuing in a historically unprecedented form of despotism. It looks in depth at the m...

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Main Author: Hebert, L. Joseph (Louie Joseph), 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.
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