Politesse and Public Opinion in Stendhal’s Red and Black
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6259804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Boyd (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 367-392 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885105055985 |
| OpenAlex | W2147243745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is one of the most celebrated 19th-century explorations of the rise of democracy as a social condition. However, Tocqueville is not the only political thinker of his immediate era to raise questions about the costs and benefits of democracy. This article will consider Stendhal’s novel The Red and the Black as an immediate precursor to Tocqueville’s criticisms of tyrannical public opinion and other ambivalent features of democracy. Like Tocqueville, Stendhal ponders the breakdown of aristocratic standards of politeness and the equally oppressive sway of democratic public opinion that replaces them. Despite their shared assumptions about the challenges of democracy, however, Stendhal’s vision of freedom seems decidedly bleaker than Tocqueville’s
Ambivalence · Democracy · Democratic system · Politeness · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Public opinion · Sociology · Law · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2014 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |