Tocqueville's "Sacred Ark"

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  • Aurelian Craiutu

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Tocqueville, democracy, liberty, equality, mores, America

Resumen

This article explores several key aspects of Tocqueville's "new science of politics". By focusing on its cross-disciplinary, comparative, normative, and political components, it highlights Tocqueville's conceptual and methodological sophistication as illustrated by his preparatory notes for Democracy in America and his voyage notes. The essay also defends Tocqueville against those critics who took him to task for working with an imprecise definition of democracy or with an ambiguous conception of equality.

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Aurelian Craiutu

Indiana University (USA)

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Publicado

2019-10-17

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Craiutu, A. (2019). Tocqueville’s "Sacred Ark". Araucaria, 21(42). Recuperado a partir de https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria/article/view/10795

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Monográfico I