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Though Tocqueville is the main subject, this book also examines Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche. It offers an interpretation of Tocqueville as a moral historian, concerned less with history as an objective record than as a disclosure of the trajectory of the human spirit.

The Fragality of Freedom Tocqueville on Religion

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      Publisher University of Chicago Press
      Published 10/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226532080
      978-0226532080
      ISBN-10 0226532089
      Also in:
      Democracy History of ideas

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Though Tocqueville is the main subject, this book also examines Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche. It offers an interpretation of Tocqueville as a moral historian, concerned less with history as an objective record than as a disclosure of the trajectory of the human spirit.

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