Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in AmericaSUNY Press, 12.09.2002 - 256 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
THE KEY TO ALMOST THE WHOLE WORK | 9 |
French and US Discourse | 12 |
A Psychoanalytic Framework | 19 |
Democracys Three Potentialities | 27 |
The Abyss | 30 |
Tocqueville in History | 33 |
Dinnersteins Theory and Tocquevilles Democracy | 37 |
Diagnosing the Democratic Psyche | 43 |
Anxiety and Unsated Desire | 104 |
Exploiting the Land Fearing the Flesh Ennobling Money | 108 |
Money Marriage and Manly Citizenship | 111 |
Middle Class Desire and the Stilling of Politics | 115 |
Workers Owners and the Veil of Contract | 117 |
The State as Parent | 125 |
IMPOTENCE AND INFANTILISM | 129 |
Hypermasculine Individualism | 130 |
GENEALOGY BIRTH AND GROWTH | 47 |
Urchin Orphan | 48 |
Wilderness Expecting | 51 |
A Scarcely Formed Embryo | 55 |
Mother England | 59 |
Democracy as Adolescent | 65 |
ADOLESCENCE AND MATURITY | 69 |
Adolescence | 71 |
Manliness or Individualism? | 75 |
Democracy in School | 77 |
Passion for Equalitys Charms | 80 |
Female Bulwark for Maturity | 85 |
Democratic Maturity? | 91 |
HOMO PUER ROBUSTUS PROPERTY COMMERCE INDUSTRY | 99 |
The Impulse for Enterprise | 102 |
Elle mene le monde | 133 |
Male Government | 137 |
The Guardian State | 148 |
Infantilism and Impotence | 153 |
DEMOCRACYS FAMILY VALUES | 157 |
Fathers Sons and Brothers | 163 |
Democracys Shadow Figures | 169 |
Containing the American Woman | 173 |
Resurrecting Order | 178 |
Democracys Gender and Family Foundations | 181 |
FAMILY GENDER AND DEMOCRATIC MATURITY | 185 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 229 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abyss administration adolescence Alexis de Tocqueville ambivalence analysis Ancien Régime aristocracy association authority autonomy binary Boesche central chapter child citizens citizenship cratic democ Democracy in America democracy's democratic maturity democratic social democratic society démocratie desire Dinnerstein argues discourse domination Dorothy Dinnerstein England Erik Erikson European American familial narrative family and gender family relations father fear Feminism flux France freedom French democracy French Revolution gendered and familial girl grow Hanna Fenichel Pitkin healthy hierarchical historical human Ibid ical idea of equality identity imagery imagination individual industry inequality infant inhabitants male manly maternal aristocracy metaphors modern conjugal family morality mother Native Americans nature nineteenth-century parent passion Pierre Manent postaristocratic racy racy's Reinhardt religion republican Revolution Rogin self-rule sex-gender signified social structure struggle symbolic family drama textually female tion Tocqueville observes Tocqueville's democracy Tocqueville's text Tocqueville's U.S. democracy United University Press woman women yearning
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