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Published · transcript-backedEric Kaufmann: belief
3 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
“We’ve seen that decline dramatically, so I think perhaps you might say that he overestimated the tenacity and durability of that associational life, that it may not survive the current secularization and individualism.”
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- 3 Jul 2019
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…What did Tocqueville most get wrong about America? Hmm. God, that’s a good question. I have to think about that. He made a lot of the associationalism and how that sort of buttressed American democracy — what Putnam talks about — the kind of social capital through associations. We’ve seen that decline dramatically, so I think perhaps you might say that he overestimated the tenacity and durability of that associational life, that it may not survive the current secularization and individualism. Maybe that’s what he got wrong. Do you think of yourself as Tocquevillian at all? Or you’re a descendant from Daniel Bell? Or where do your views come from, if you have to place yourself? I don’t mean in a partisan, political way, but intellectually.…
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