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Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United States

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3505-7
Hardcover
140 pages
December 2005, Polity
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  • A highly topical book which examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States.

  • Claus Offe considers the perspectives adopted by three of Europe's greatest social scientists - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber and Theodor W. Adorno - in their comparative writings on Europe and the US.

  • Written by one of the leading social scientists of Europe.

  • Questions the relevance of the paradigm of the shared political and social development of Europe and the US to transatlantic relations today.

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