Tocqueville in Arabia

Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Joshua Mitchell

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Encounter Books,USA
13 June 2023

Social & political philosophy; Religion & beliefs; Religion & politics; Islam; Social interaction

We live in the democratic age. So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835, in his magisterial work,Democracy in America.

Tocqueville thought this meant that as each nation left behind the vestiges of its aristocracy, life for its citizens or subjects would be increasingly isolated and lonely.

In America, we know of our growing isolation and loneliness. What of the Middle East?

In the Middle East today, citizens and subjects live amid a profound tension: Familial and tribal linkages hold them fast, and at the same time rapid modernization has left them as isolated and lonely as so many Americans are today. The looming question, anticipated so long ago by Tocqueville, is how they will respond to this isolation and loneliness.

Joshua Mitchell has spent years teaching Tocqueville's social theory, in America and the Arab Gulf, and withTocqueville in Arabia, he offers a profound account of how the crisis of isolation and loneliness is playing out in similar and in different ways, in America and in the Middle East.

We live in a time rife with mutual misunderstandings between America and the Middle East.

Tocqueville in Arabiaoffers a guide to the present, troubled times, leavened by the author's hopes about the future.

By: Joshua Mitchell
Imprint: Encounter Books,USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
ISBN: 9781641773133
ISBN 10: 1641773138
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 13 June 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JOSHUA MITCHELL is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University. The author of numerous journal articles and four books, most recently, American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time, Professor Mitchell’s research focuses on Western political philosophy and theology. In 2005, he was part of the team responsible for founding Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. From 2008–10, while on leave from Georgetown, Professor Mitchell served as acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

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Tocqueville in Arabia

Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Joshua Mitchell

$47.95

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