Whither the Contented? Tocqueville and the Fate of the Unambitious in Democratic Times.

Historically, ambition has been considered a vice, if not a crime. Through an invocation of Alexis de Tocqueville's reflections on "democratic ambition" this paper argues that the modern age has not only done away with this disapprobation, a particular sort of ambition is not only permitted, it is d...

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Publicado en:Perspectives on Political Science Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 93 - 106
Autores principales: Avramenko, Richard, Rolsma, Benjamin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2023
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