
Tocqueville's virus : utopia and dystopia in Western social and political thought / Mark Featherstone
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Main Authors: | Featherstone, Mark (Author) |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: | New York, NY [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008 |
Series: | Routledge advances in sociology
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Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents |
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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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