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Tessitore, Aristide (Ty). "On the Genre of Tocqueville's Writing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62578_index.html>

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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Tocqueville's Democracy in America is his best-known work, one that has become a touchstone in contemporary political science. However, determining the exact nature of its literary genre proves to be a difficult task. J. S. Mill considered it to be a work of "philosophy"; indeed, the first philosophic book to be written on democracy. Tocqueville himself writes of the need for a "new political science" for the dawning democratic era and it is generally supposed that he has given us a model for such a science in this book. On the other hand, "philosophy" and "science" seem to miss an important dimension of a study that at crucial junctures deploys "imagery" (divine providence for example) and "ideal types" (aristocratic and democratic), argues by means of "analogy" (most notably between Christian morality and civic equality), and depends in an important way on the pivotal role of "imagination" for explaining the effect of a social condition on its members. Indeed, Tocqueville begins his study of America by announcing that he sought in America more than America-he sought "an image of democracy itself" and wished to "paint" the influence of equality of conditions civil society. The notion of genre is further complicated by the overlapping motives and intentions connecting Tocqueville's scholarly and political ambitions-to what extent should Democracy in America be considered an exercise in politics by literary means? The idea for this paper is to examine in a thematic way the complex genre of Tocqueville's masterpiece.

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