Reflections on America: Tocqueville, Weber and Adorno in the United StatesISBN: 978-0-7456-3505-7
Hardcover
140 pages
December 2005, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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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.