Author: Tocqueville SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 432
Book Description
Revue Tocqueville
Author: Tocqueville's Discovery of America
Author: Leo DamroschPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831–1832, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and painting a vivid picture of Jacksonian America. Damrosch shows that Tocqueville found much to admire in the dynamism of American society and in its egalitarian ideals. But he was offended by the ethos of grasping materialism and was convinced that the institution of slavery was bound to give rise to a tragic civil war. Drawing on documents and letters that have never before appeared in English, as well as on a wide range of scholarship, Tocqueville's Discovery of America brings the man, his ideas, and his world to startling life.
Tocqueville on America after 1840
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113947829X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America has been recognized as an indispensable starting point for understanding American politics. From the publication of the second volume in 1840 until his death in 1859, Tocqueville continued to monitor political developments in America and committed many of his thoughts to paper in letters to his friends in America. He also made frequent references to America in many articles and speeches. Did Tocqueville change his views on America outlined in the two volumes of Democracy in America published in 1835 and 1840? If so, which of his views changed and why? The texts translated in Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings answer these questions and offer English-speaking readers the possibility of familiarizing themselves with this unduly neglected part of Tocqueville's work. The book points out a clear shift in emphasis especially after 1852 and documents Tocqueville's growing disenchantment with America, triggered by such issues as political corruption, slavery, expansionism and the encroachment of the economic sphere upon the political.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Author: Hugh BroganPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300108033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
A comprehensive portrait of the great French political thinker explores his life, work, travels in the United States, and writing of "Democracy in America."
The Tocqueville Review
Author: Tocqueville SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813911083
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Tocqueville et l'esprit de la démocratie
Author: Laurence GuellecPublisher: PRESSES DE SCIENCES PO
ISBN: 2724686497
Category : Political Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edité à l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance de Tocqueville (1805-1859), ce livre réunit les meilleures contributions parues ces vingt-cinq dernières années dans The Tocqueville Review / La revue Tocqueville, revue franco-américaine consacrée р l'auteur du célèbre De la démocratie en Amérique. Les plus grands spécialistes français et internationaux sont représentés dans cet ouvrage bilingue : Raymond Aron, Daniel Bell, Arthur Goldhammer, Claude Lefort, François Furet, Françoise Mélonio, Olivier Zunz, pour n'en citer que quelques-uns. A travers ces contributions se dessine le portrait d'un Tocqueville pluriel, philosophe politique épris de liberté, sociologue de l'égalisation des conditions par la démocratie, pionnier de la méthode comparative, écrivain visionnaire et penseur engagé.
The Tocqueville Review - La Revue Tocqueville, 1986-87
Author: Jesse R. PittsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813911434
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Tocqueville Review
Author: Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy
Author: Pierre ManentPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847681167
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
One of France's leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville's writings: the democratic revolution and the modern passion for equality. What becomes of people when they are overcome by this passion and how does it transform the contents of life? Pierre Manent's analysis concludes that the growth of state power and the homogenization of society are two primary consequences of equalizing conditions. The author shows the contemporary relevance of Tocqueville's teaching: to love democracy well, one must love it moderately. Manent examines the prophetic nature of Tocqueville's writings with breadth, clarity, and depth. His findings are both timely and highly relevant as people in Eastern Europe and around the world are grappling with the fragile, complicated, and frequently contradictory nature of democracy. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of political theory and political philosophy, as well as general readers interested in the nature of modern democracy.
M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description