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Tocqueville's virus : utopia and dystopia in Western social and political thought
- Title
- Tocqueville's virus : utopia and dystopia in Western social and political thought / Mark Featherstone.
- Author
- Featherstone, Mark.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, c2008.
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- Description
- 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 28
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-307) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Tocqueville's virus -- Ancients and moderns -- Freedom and tyranny in Socrates and Plato -- Friends, enemies, and the cosmology of power politics -- The mechanisation of society and the pathologies of the self -- The madness of modernity -- Modernity and schizophrenia -- Autism, paranoia, critique -- Totalitarianism -- Arendt's theory of totalitarianism -- Arendt's paranoia critique of modernity -- Conclusion: America, nation of the edge -- Bibliography.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-8072
- ISBN
- 9780415339612 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415339618 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006038299
- OCLC
- 76828719
- vendorOCM76828719
- Author
- Featherstone, Mark.
- Title
- Tocqueville's virus : utopia and dystopia in Western social and political thought / Mark Featherstone.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, c2008.
- Series
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 28
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-307) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-8072