Lonely hearts: Tocqueville and Democracy.
Concerning the heart within the history of ideas, Alexis de Tocqueville is rather unknown - wrongfully. His theory of the democratic heart does not only deliver a privileged view on the pathologies of modern democracy, it also helps to decipher Tocqueville's own theory of democracy. In addition...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repositorio: | Latin American Human Rights Studies |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/78028 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ufg.br/lahrs/article/view/78028 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Tocqueville Democracia Despotismo Suave Solidão Coração Individualismo Democracy Soft Despotism Solitude Heart lndividualism |
| Sumario: | Concerning the heart within the history of ideas, Alexis de Tocqueville is rather unknown - wrongfully. His theory of the democratic heart does not only deliver a privileged view on the pathologies of modern democracy, it also helps to decipher Tocqueville's own theory of democracy. In addition, Tocqueville's heart-reflections facilitate a better understanding of Individualism and Soft Despotism and they illuminate diagnoses and therapies of civic discomforts. Tocqueville's lonely hearts reflect the crisis of the modern world and - in a curious way - they also outline the ambivalent relationship between Tocqueville and democracy. To make it short: The importance of the lonely hearts can hardly be overestimated |
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