Tocqueville's virus : utopia and dystopia in Western social and political thought / Mark Featherstone

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Main Authors:Featherstone, Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York, NY [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008
Series:Routledge advances in sociology 28
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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
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