Alexis De Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in Americaand The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker.

Dr Kahan is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism (Oxford, 1992) and Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe (Palgrave, 2003). He was also co-editor of The Tocqueville Reader (Wiley, 2002).

Part I / 1 Biography / Part II. / 2 The Essential Tocqueville / 3 Democracy and Freedom in America / 4 Democracy and Freedom in France / 5 Democracy and Freedom Elsewhere / 6 Democracy, Freedom, and Poverty / 7 Tocqueville, the Neo-Liberal / Part III / 8 Tocqueville and his Readers / Part IV / 9 Tocqueville Today / Part V/ Works Cited / Annotated Bibliography / Index