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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

Autor(a) de Democracy in America

186+ Works 13,752 Membros 94 Críticas 18 Favorited

About the Author

French writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville was born in Verneuil to an aristocratic Norman family. He entered the bar in 1825 and became an assistant magistrate at Versailles. In 1831, he was sent to the United States to report on the prison system. This journey produced a book called On the mostrar mais Penitentiary System in the United States (1833), as well as a much more significant work called Democracy in America (1835--40), a treatise on American society and its political system. Active in French politics, Tocqueville also wrote Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), in which he argued that the Revolution of 1848 did not constitute a break with the past but merely accelerated a trend toward greater centralization of government. Tocqueville was an observant Catholic, and this has been cited as a reason why many of his insights, rather than being confined to a particular time and place, reach beyond to see a universality in all people everywhere. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America (1835) 5,738 exemplares
Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835) 1,036 exemplares
Democracy in America {abridged} (1956) 1,020 exemplares
Recollections (1893) 189 exemplares
Memoir on Pauperism (1997) 84 exemplares
Letters from America (2000) 56 exemplares
Journey to America (1959) 43 exemplares
A Fortnight in the Wilderness (1998) 40 exemplares
Writings on Empire and Slavery (2000) 33 exemplares
Journeys to England and Ireland (1958) 33 exemplares
American Institutions and Their Influence (1851) — Autor — 31 exemplares
The Tocqueville Reader: a Life in Letters and Politics (2002) — Autor — 30 exemplares
Democracy in America, Volume I (2009) 23 exemplares
Tocqueville's America (1983) 18 exemplares
Tocqueville : Oeuvres, Tome 3 (2004) 16 exemplares
Regards sur le Bas-Canada (2003) 10 exemplares
Minnen (2015) 7 exemplares
Democratie wezen en oorsprong (2004) 6 exemplares
Dizionario delle idee (1997) 6 exemplares
Cogunlugun Zorbaligi (2020) 5 exemplares
Discursos y escritos políticos (2005) 4 exemplares
Le despotisme démocratique (2009) 4 exemplares
Un Perfil de Norteamérica (1997) 3 exemplares
Inéditos sobre la revolución (1973) 3 exemplares
Discorso sul diritto al lavoro (1996) 3 exemplares
Correspondencia (1985) 3 exemplares
Seconde lettre sur l'Algérie (2003) 3 exemplares
Democracy in America (abridged) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Toqueville (2013) 2 exemplares
De la colonie en Algérie (1837) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Tocqueville au Bas-Canada (2017) 2 exemplares
Wspomnienia (1987) 2 exemplares
Viaggi (1997) 2 exemplares
Democracy in America 2 exemplares
Viaggio in America, 1831-1832 (1909) 2 exemplares
Oeuvres choisies 2 exemplares
Dawne rządy a rewolucja (2019) 1 exemplar
Scritti politici (2013) 1 exemplar
Kleine politische Schriften (2014) 1 exemplar
Vita attraverso le lettere (1996) 1 exemplar
Das Zeitalter der Gleichheit (1954) 1 exemplar
Listy (1999) 1 exemplar
Il vecchio regime 1 exemplar
Journey To America 1 exemplar
Memoria sobre el pauperismo (2003) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contribuidor — 389 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Contribuidor, algumas edições255 exemplares
American Government: Readings and Cases (1977) — Contribuidor, algumas edições245 exemplares
The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contribuidor — 210 exemplares
Life in the Iron Mills [Bedford Cultural Editions] (1997) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
American Heritage: A Reader (2011) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
Classics of Modern Political Theory : Machiavelli to Mill (1996) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
America Visited (1937) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
The liberal tradition in European thought (1971) — Contribuidor, algumas edições17 exemplares
Sources: Notable Selections in American Government (1996) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Conservative Texts: An Anthology (1991) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Escritos políticos (1964) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Bitch-Goddess Success: Variations on an American Theme (1968) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Civiliser la démocratie (1998) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Nome legal
de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel
Outros nomes
TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis DE
DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel
DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis Charles Henri Clerel
Data de nascimento
1805-07-29
Data de falecimento
1859-04-16
Localização do túmulo
Tocqueville Cemetery, Normandy, France
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
France
Local de nascimento
Paris, France
Local de falecimento
Cannes, France
Causa da morte
Tuberculosis
Locais de residência
Cannes, France
Verneuil-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Paris, France
Educação
Collège Royal, Metz
Lycée Fabert, Metz
Ocupações
magistrate
political philosopher
aristocrat
Organizações
Chamber of Deputies (1839)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Académie française (1841)

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Alexis de Tocqueville was a political thinker and writer still famous today especially for his Democracy in America, the classic work that appeared in two volumes in 1835 and 1840 following his travels in the USA. Also in 1835, de Tocqueville married Mary Motley, an Englishwoman, against the wishes of his family because she was not an aristocrat.

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Alexis de Tocqueville compares with disinterested honesty 19th century Democracy, especially American democracy, with the European aristocracies that preceded it. In this two-volume work, he outlines both the benefits and dangers of both social orders. With the certain knowledge that the age of the aristocracy is passed, de Tocqueville writes with the ultimate hope that his book will serve as a warning to citizens under democratic rule, that they will not succumb to the apathy that is their greatest enemy, which would allow the government to pursue its natural tendency to metastasize into the private realm of citizen, governing an ever greater number of minutiae in the personal lives of its subjects, and annulling the freedom that was originally sought in creating a democracy… (mais)
 
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Coffeehag | 32 outras críticas | Oct 5, 2023 |
One of the most pivotal books in my college education. It got me to start rethinking the concept of prisons and mass incarceration in America.
 
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beckyrenner | 12 outras críticas | Aug 3, 2023 |

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Alan S. Kahan Translator, Editor
Francis Bowen Editor, Translator
Henry Reeve Translator
Roger Boesche Editor, Translator
Hugh Griffith Introduction
Michael Kammen Introduction
Aurelian Criautu Editor/Translator
Jeremy Jennings Editor/Translator
Delba Winthrop Editor, Translator
George Lawrence Translator
John Stuart Mill Introduction
Alvin Lustig Cover designer
Harvey C. Mansfield Translator, Editor
Harold J. Laski Introduction
Stephen D. Grant Translator
Gerald Bevan Translator
Eduardo Nolla Translator
Ralph Raico Contributor
Daniel Boorstin Introduction
Alan Ryan Introduction
Max Lerner Editor
Joseph Epstein Introduction
François Furet Editor, Preface
John Lukacs Translator, Editor
Daniel J. Boorstin Introduction
Leonard Baskin Cover designer
Joan Casas Translator
Stuart Gilbert Translator
Hugh Brogan Introduction
Frederick Brown Editor, Translator
A. P. Kerr Editor
Fernand Braudel Introduction
Jennifer Pitts Editor, Translator
Gertrude Himmelfarb Introduction
Emmet Larkin Translator, Editor
James Toupin Translator
John Stone Editor
Karl Marx Contributor

Estatísticas

Obras
186
Also by
16
Membros
13,752
Popularidade
#1,687
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
94
ISBN
638
Línguas
24
Marcado como favorito
18

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