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Though few would attach the label of liberal to Dostoevsky as a thinker his life and work can be seen as motivated by a concern for human freedom. As an editor and author he advocated a course of action for his nation's intelligentsia that would transform the Russian autocracy into a liberal regime. This course of action was dictated by his insight into the necessary foundation for a liberal regime, a principle of self-abnegation that rested in turn on the conviction that human beings share in an immortal principle. This insight points to and gives content to the true goal of the liberal regime, the recognition and protection of human dignity. Adapted from the source document.

Alulis reviews Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology by Julia Reinhard Lupton.

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