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Democracy Growing Up : Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
Title:
Democracy Growing Up : Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
Author:
Janara, Laura.
ISBN:
9780791488362
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (267 pages)
Series:
SUNY Series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
Contents:
DEMOCRACY GROWING UP -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The Key to Almost the Whole Work" -- French and U.S. Discourse -- Interpreting Tocqueville's Imagery: A Psychoanalytic Framework -- What Tocqueville Fears: Democracy's Three Potentialities -- The Abyss -- Interpreting Tocqueville's Imagery: Tocqueville in History -- Dinnerstein's Theory and Tocqueville's Democracy -- Diagnosing the Democratic Psyche -- 2. Genealogy, Birth, and Growth -- Democracy in France: Urchin Orphan -- Democracy in America: Wilderness Expecting -- Saginaw: A Scarcely Formed Embryo -- Mother England -- Resisting the Mother: Democracy as Adolescent -- 3. Adolescence and Maturity -- Adolescence -- Manliness or Individualism? -- Democracy in School -- Passion for Equality's Charms -- Religion, Mores, Morality: Female Bulwark for Maturity -- Democractic Maturity? -- 4. Homo Puer Robustus: Property, Commerce, Industry -- The Impulse for Enterprise -- Anxiety and Unsated Desire -- Exploiting the Land, Fearing the Flesh, Ennobling Money -- Money, Marriage, and Manly Citizenship -- Middle Class Desire and the Stilling of Politics -- Workers, Owners, and the Veil of Contract -- The State as Parent -- 5. Impotence and Infantilism -- Hypermasculine Individualism -- Public Opinion: Elle Mene le Monde -- Female Administration: Male Government -- The Guardian State -- Infantilism and Impotence -- 6. Democracy's Family Values -- Democracy as Self-Mastery: Fathers, Sons, and Brothers -- Girls: Democracy's Shadow Figures -- Fear and Desire: Containing the American Woman -- Marriage and Sex: Resurrecting Order -- Democracy's Gender and Family Foundations -- Conclusion: Family, Gender, and Democratic Maturity -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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