Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life Book

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	3
Part 1	The Abundance of Power	11
Chapter I	Modern Theory and Modern Power	13
Chapter II	Theoria: The Theoretical Journey	34
Part 2	Encountering the Amazing	57
Chapter III	Discovering Democracy	59
Chapter IV	Self and Structure	76
Chapter V	Doubt and Disconnection	102
Chapter VI	"... The Theory of What Is Great"	113
Chapter VII	Myth and Political Impressionism	132
Chapter VIII	The Spectacle of America	149
Part 3	The Theoretical Encapsulation of America
Chapter IX	Social Contract versus Political Culture	171
Chapter X	The Culture of the Political: "The Rituals of Practice"	202
Chapter XI	Feudal America	229
Chapter XII	Majority Rule or Majority Politics	241
Chapter XIII	Centralization and Dissolution	260
Chapter XIV	The Image of Democracy	275
Part 4	Persona and the Politics of Theory	287
Chapter XV	Tragic Hero, Popular Mask	289
Chapter XVI	The Democratization of Culture	304
Chapter XVII	Despotism and Utopia	339
Chapter XVIII	Old New World, New Old World	365
Chapter XIX	Tocquevillean Democracy	374
Chapter XX	The Penitentiary Temptation	383
Part 5	Second Journey to America	407
Chapter XXI	The Political Education of the Bourgeoisie	409
Chapter XXII	Souvenirs: Recollections In/Tranquillity	428
Chapter XXIII	Souvenirs: Socialism and the Crisis of the Political	456
Chapter XXIV	The Old Regime and the Revolution: Mythistoricus et theoreticus	498
Chapter XXV	The Old Regime: Modernization and the Politics of Loss	531
Chapter XXVI	Postdemocracy	561
	Notes	573
	Index	641