Truth, Belief, and Civilization: Tocqueville and Gobineau

In: The review of politics, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 460-482

Abstract

For more than a century there have been among the learned those who have tried to extend the outlook and the methods of the natural sciences to the study of man and to the behavior of human societies. Their efforts have raised issues which are of vital concern in the thermonuclear age which we have entered.