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- catalog abstract "Alexis de Tocqueville is recognized as one of the most important nineteenth-century historians. In this study, Harvey Mitchell examines afresh Tocqueville's works, in particular the Souvenirs of 1848 and his voluminous correspondence, to shed new light on Tocqueville's philosophy of history. Professor Mitchell exposes the tensions which Tocqueville perceived between determined actions and choice, continuity and change, asking what happens to individual liberty if it is impossible to make a clean break with the past, and if past developments continue to influence the future. Professor Mitchell argues that it was Tocqueville's related concern with liberty in a modern democratic age which led him to write his L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution. Drawing on the full range of Tocqueville's writings, Individual choice and the structures of history reveals in them a unity of thought and a deep involvement with the philosophical questions raised by historical continuity and change.".
- catalog contributor b9539967.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "1. Frameworks -- 2. Toward a theory of history -- 3. Tocqueville's conceptualization of moral choice and the particular -- 4. Tocqueville's uses of intentionality and necessity in the Souvenirs -- 5. Toward the history of L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution -- 6. Three faces of history in Democracy in America -- 7. Tocqueville on the general laws of revolution -- 8. The aristocratic ethos on the defensive -- 9. Ideas and public opinion: the formation of a new ethos -- 10. Further reflections.".
- catalog description "Alexis de Tocqueville is recognized as one of the most important nineteenth-century historians. In this study, Harvey Mitchell examines afresh Tocqueville's works, in particular the Souvenirs of 1848 and his voluminous correspondence, to shed new light on Tocqueville's philosophy of history. Professor Mitchell exposes the tensions which Tocqueville perceived between determined actions and choice, continuity and change, asking what happens to individual liberty if it is impossible to make a clean break with the past, and if past developments continue to influence the future. Professor Mitchell argues that it was Tocqueville's related concern with liberty in a modern democratic age which led him to write his L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution. Drawing on the full range of Tocqueville's writings, Individual choice and the structures of history reveals in them a unity of thought and a deep involvement with the philosophical questions raised by historical continuity and change.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 290 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521560918 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "944/.007202 20".
- catalog subject "DC36.98.T63 M57 1996".
- catalog subject "Decentralization in government France.".
- catalog subject "Historians France Biography.".
- catalog subject "Revolutions Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 Political and social views.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Frameworks -- 2. Toward a theory of history -- 3. Tocqueville's conceptualization of moral choice and the particular -- 4. Tocqueville's uses of intentionality and necessity in the Souvenirs -- 5. Toward the history of L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution -- 6. Three faces of history in Democracy in America -- 7. Tocqueville on the general laws of revolution -- 8. The aristocratic ethos on the defensive -- 9. Ideas and public opinion: the formation of a new ethos -- 10. Further reflections.".
- catalog title "Individual choice and the structures of history : Alexis de Tocqueville as historian reappraised / Harvey Mitchell.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".