Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age

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ID8048879
AuthorsC Jon Delogu (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages331
Publication date2013-12-18
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueTocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOpen Humanities Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3998/ohp.12538666.0001.001
OpenAlexW1850382024
Open LibraryOL28359859M
ISBN9781607853039
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

Has every other century been like this one?Has man always confronted, as he does today, a world in which nothing makes sense?In which virtue is without genius and genius without honor?In which the love of order is indistinguishable from the lust of tyrants?In which the sacred cult of liberty is confounded with contempt for the law?In which conscience casts but an ambiguous light on the actions of men?In which nothing any longer seems forbidden or allowed, honest or shameful, true or false?"-Tocqueville, Democracy in America (from the Introduction)"But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,-when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining,-we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" 1. See John Dunn, Democracy: A History (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), Chapter One.As late as 1767, Adam Ferguson in his Essay on the History of Civil Society uses the term democratical in a rather condescending, disbelieving way as though it were a far-fetched and certainly temporary thought experiment-more theoretical than actually practical

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