01422nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_166391 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 95 320.973 M681 Mitchell, Harvey America after Tocqueville : Democracy against difference Harvey Mitchell Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002 This study draws on Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own time. Three aspects of Americanism inform Harvey Mitchell's book, and cannot be separated from Tocqueville's consideration of the three races. First, he addresses tensions in the United States between ideas of equality and a political system that tries to keep it within bounds. He turns to the relationship between this system and the dynamics of American capitalism. and he analyses the criteria for inclusion and exclusion in American life. Overall, he asks if Americans have surrendered to what Tocqueville called the materialization of life; if that compromise means their abandonment of their original spiritual quest; and, if they are on the way to a radical alienation from politics. Democracy,Equality United States,United States Bich Tram, Giang Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ