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America After Tocqueville
Harvey Mitchell
其他書名
Democracy Against Difference
出版Cambridge University Press, 2006-11-02
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN05210302429780521030243
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aGXp0i6wSFUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996). This study draws on Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own time. Three aspects of Americanism inform Harvey Mitchell's book, and cannot be separated from Tocqueville's consideration of the three races. First, he addresses tensions in the United States between ideas of equality and a political system that tries to keep it within bounds. He turns to the relationship between this system and the dynamics of American capitalism. and he analyses the criteria for inclusion and exclusion in American life. Overall, he asks if Americans have surrendered to what Tocqueville called the materialization of life; if that compromise means their abandonment of their original spiritual quest; and, if they are on the way to a radical alienation from politics.