Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

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Author(s): Paul Anthony Rahe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2009

Language: English
Commentary: More best quality

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Book One. The Modern Republic Examined
Preface
ONE Principles
TWO Uneasiness
Book Two. The Modern Republic Revisited
Preface
ONE The Enlightenment Indicted
TWO Sociability as a Malady
THREE Citizenship as a Remedy
Book Three. The Democratic Republic Considered
Preface
ONE Democratic Despotism
TWO American Exceptionalism
THREE The French Disease
FOUR A Despotism of Administrators
Conclusion
Notes
Index