Democracy's Family Values: Alexis de Tocqueville on Anxiety, Fear and Desire

Autor:	Laura Janara
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Hierarchy Psychoanalysis Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Passions Anxiety fear Family life Democracy Portrait Sociology Social psychology Family values Egalitarianism media_common
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of Political Science. 34:551-578
ISSN:	1744-9324 0008-4239
DOI:	10.1017/s0008423901778006
Popis:	Standing interpretations of the family relations depicted in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America project onto his portrait of democracy a strong public-private dichotomy. However, de Tocqueville insists that family life is embedded in the dynamics that shape the broader society and culture. Investigating this claim yields a psychological account of the desires, fears and anxieties that haunt democratic society. These passions foment a paradoxical mix of egalitarianism and hierarchy, liberty and subjugation, within family life and beyond. De Tocqueville's fundamental thesis that democracy boasts healthy and unhealthy potentialities is better understood when the idea of family as a discrete sphere is abandoned.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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