Divine order and secular social science in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America can be read as an extended anthropological comparison of hierarchical and egalitarian societies (‘aristocracies’ and ‘democracies,’ in his terms). In its use of comparative method, it is strikingly modern, almost post-modern: secular social science. And y...
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Language: | English |
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Routledge
2021
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Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 566-576 |
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secular social science
B democracy in America B Alexis de Tocqueville B Comparison B Divine Knowledge |
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