What they saw in America : Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb
By: Nolan, James L. Jr.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York Cambridge University Press 2016Description: x, 299 pages 23 cm.ISBN: 9781316601594 .Subject(s): Tocqueville, Alexis de | Weber, Max | Chesterton, G. K | Quṭb, Sayyid | National characteristics | History | DemocracyDDC classification: 973
Contents:
Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America -- Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy -- Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America -- Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism -- A new Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on Main Street -- Chestertonian distributism and the democratic ideal -- From musha to New York: Qutb encounters American jahiliyya -- Qutb's "inquiring eyes" in Colorado and California.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
Pride, patriotism, and the mercantilist spirit: Tocqueville and Beaumont discover America -- Tocqueville and the quandary of American democracy -- Agrarianism, race, and the end of romanticism: Weber in early twentieth-century America -- Weber on sects, schools, and the spirit of capitalism -- A new Martin Chuzzlewit: Chesterton on Main Street -- Chestertonian distributism and the democratic ideal -- From musha to New York: Qutb encounters American jahiliyya -- Qutb's "inquiring eyes" in Colorado and California.
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