In this Book
- Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
summary
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America continues to be widely read, but for all this familiarity, the vivid imagery with which he conveys his ideas has been overlooked, left to act with unexamined force upon readers’ imaginations. In this first sustained feminist reading of Democracy in America Laura Janara assesses the dramatic feminine, masculine, and infantile metaphorical figures that represent the historical political drama that is Tocqueville’s primary topic. These tropes are analyzed as both historical artifacts and symbols for psychoanalytic interpretation, deepening and complicating the standing interpretations of Tocqueville’s work. Democracy Growing Up comments critically upon the peculiar gendered and familial foundations of modern Western democracy and upon the notion of democratic maturity that Tocqueville offers us.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- 2. Genealogy, Birth, and Growth
- pp. 47-67
- 3. Adolescence and Maturity
- pp. 69-98
- 5. Impotence and Infantilism
- pp. 129-156
- 6. Democracy's Family Values
- pp. 157-184
- Bibliography
- pp. 229-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791488362
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
53956521
Pages
266
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No