bokomslag Individual Choice and the Structures of History
Historia

Individual Choice and the Structures of History

Harvey Mitchell

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  • 306 sidor
  • 1996
Alexis de Tocqueville is recognized as one of the most important nineteenth-century historians. In this perceptive study, Harvey Mitchell examines Tocqueville's works, in particular Souvenirs of 1848 and his voluminous correspondence, to shed new light on Tocqueville's philosophy of history. Professor Mitchell exposes the tensions which Tocqueville perceived between determined actions and choice, continuity and change, asking what happens to individual liberty if it is impossible to make a clean break with the past, and if past developments continue to influence the future. Professor Mitchell draws on the full range of Tocqueville's writings to find in them a unity of thought and a deep involvement with the philosophical questions raised by historical continuity and change.
  • Författare: Harvey Mitchell
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780521560917
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 306
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1996-03-01
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press