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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- THE ANGEL AND THE BEAST -- 1 The Human Condition: Tocqueville's Debt to Rousseau and Pascal -- 2 The Role of Religion in Preserving American Liberty—Tocqueville's Analysis 150 Years Later -- THE VIRTUES OF FREEDOM -- 3 The People and the Great: Tocqueville and Machiavelli on the Art of Being Free -- 4 Virtue and Politics in Tocqueville -- THE DEMOCRATIC STATE -- 5 Tocqueville Reconsidered: Foreign Policy and the American Democracy -- 6 Tocqueville and the Historical Sociology of State -- THE NEW SOCIETY -- 7 Tocqueville, a Phenomenology of the Social -- 8 The Question of Fraternity in Democracy in America -- 9 Pauperism and Democracy. Alexis de Tocqueville and Nassau Senior -- THE WRITING OF DEMOCRATIC MAN -- 10 Tocqueville and American Literary Critics -- 11 Democratic Literature: Tocqueville's Poetological Reflections and Dreams -- THE END OF 1789 -- 12 Why Did Tocqueville Think a Successful Revolution Was Impossible? -- 13 Tocqueville and the Postmodern Refusal of History -- THE PROBLEM OF THE TWO DEMOCRACIES -- 14 How Many Democracies! -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry's most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim's work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called Ostjuden) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth century—to war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry

Este libro está dedicado a la memoria del sociólogo Gino Germani. En la estructura del texto se reproduce la del Congreso Internacional sobre los límites de la democracia realizado en Roma a fines de 1980, en la Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociale. Este libro es una revisión crítica, histórica y sociológica de recientes procesos de transformación social y política que atañen de especial manera a la construcción de la democracia contemporánea. El lector encontrará importantes aportes analíticos que le serán útiles para la comprensión de las posibilidades y utopías de la nueva democracia latinoamericana, entendida no sólo como campo político y legal legítimo, sino también como la búsqueda de un amplio y permanente horizonte humano: el de la libertad.