Democracy Growing Up : Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Laura Janara.
2012
JK216.T7193 J36 2002eb
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Title
Democracy Growing Up : Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Laura Janara.
Author
ISBN
9780791488362
0791488365
0791488365
Published
Albany : SUNY Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (266 p.) : Total Illustrations :
Call Number
JK216.T7193 J36 2002eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1432031591
Summary
Finalist for the 2004 C.B. Macpherson Prize presented by the Canadian Political Science AssociationWinner of the Best First Book Award presented by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science AssociationTocqueville's Democracy in America continues to be widely read, but for all this familiarity, the vivid imagery with which he conveys his ideas has been overlooked, left to act with unexamined force upon readers' imaginations. In this first sustained feminist reading of Democracy in America Laura Janara assesses the dramatic feminine, masculine, and infantile metaphorical figures that represent the historical political drama that is Tocqueville's primary topic. These tropes are analyzed as both historical artifacts and symbols for psychoanalytic interpretation, deepening and complicating the standing interpretations of Tocqueville's work. Democracy Growing Up comments critically upon the peculiar gendered and familial foundations of modern Western democracy and upon the notion of democratic maturity that Tocqueville offers us.
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"The Key to Almost the Whole Work"
Genealogy, Birth, and Growth
Adolescence and Maturity
Homo Puer Robustus
Impotence and Infantilism
Democracy's Family Values
Conclusion: Family, Gender, and Democratic Maturity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"The Key to Almost the Whole Work"
Genealogy, Birth, and Growth
Adolescence and Maturity
Homo Puer Robustus
Impotence and Infantilism
Democracy's Family Values
Conclusion: Family, Gender, and Democratic Maturity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024).
Series
SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
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