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Choi, Joung-Min. "The Critics of Democracy: The Political Visions of Walker Percy and the Tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Vanderbilt Agrarians," American Studies Program, Saint Louis University, July 1995.
Using Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and the Vanderbilt Agrarians’ Manifesto I’ll Take My Stand, this study analyzes Percy’s (1916-1990) critique of the contemporary, middle class, suburban society revealed in his fiction and non-fiction. Percy and the Agrarians share with Tocqueville the idea of the limitations of being human and the importance of the Christian order which gives meaning to the community. They probe the weakness of democracy and assert the need for God against the impending mass society garbed with scientism and the gospel of Progress. They claim that the inappropriate application of scientific methodology to social sciences endangers the healthy existence of human beings.
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