Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
Forfatter af Democracy in America
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America; Recollections; The Old Regime and the Revolution (French language) (1986) 39 eksemplarer
Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society (Heritage of Sociology Series) (1980) 25 eksemplarer
Democracy in America: Abridged with an Introduction by Michael Kammen (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) (2009) 24 eksemplarer
On the state of society in France before the revolution of 1789;: And on the causes which led to that event (1988) 15 eksemplarer
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocquville 14 eksemplarer
Democracy in America (selections); Communist Manifesto (Great Books Foundation First Year Course, VII) (1955) 11 eksemplarer
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume II: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon (2001) 11 eksemplarer
De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome premier et augmentée d'un Avertissement et d'un… (2011) 9 eksemplarer
Democracia y pobreza/ Democracy and Poverty: Memorias Sobre El Pauperismo (Clasicos De La Cultura) (Spanish Edition) (1998) 9 eksemplarer
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis De Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 1 (1872) 7 eksemplarer
De la démocratie en Amérique (Tome 1): Les grands thèmes 6 eksemplarer
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings: Poverty, Public Welfare, and Inequality (2021) 5 eksemplarer
ANCIEN RÉGIME ET RÉVOLUTION 5 eksemplarer
Sur l'Algérie : Lettre sur L'Algérie, 1837. Notes du voyage en Algérie, 1841. Travail sur l'Algérie, 1841. Rapports (2003) 4 eksemplarer
De la démocratie en Amérique : Tome 1, Introduction, chapitres 6 et 7 de la deuxième partie (2007) 3 eksemplarer
Democracy in America (Excerpts) (Audible.com recorded book, narrated by George Guidall) (1999) 3 eksemplarer
Democracy in America 3 eksemplarer
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis De Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 (1872) 3 eksemplarer
1: La rivoluzione democratica in Francia 2 eksemplarer
Democracy in America (Portuguese language - Principia) 2 eksemplarer
Democracy in America, Volume 2 (Spanish language) 2 eksemplarer
Democracy in America (abridged) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville : Texte abrégé et présenté par Jean-Pierre Peter (1963) 2 eksemplarer
O Antigo Regime e a Revolução 2 eksemplarer
Journeys to England and Ireland. 2 eksemplarer
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis De Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859 [2-volume set] (1872) 2 eksemplarer
Oeuvres choisies 2 eksemplarer
Democracy in America, Volume 1 & 2 1 eksemplar
Il carattere degli americani 1 eksemplar
Alexis de Tocqueville. Kleine Politische Schriften. Schriften zur europäischen Ideengeschichte. Band 1 (2006) 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America (Everyman's Library) 1 eksemplar
Democratie en revolutie 1 eksemplar
The World's Great Classics: Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville - Vol. II (of 2) 1 eksemplar
La democracia en América I 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America, 1956, Mentor Book 1 eksemplar
Alexis de tocqueville et arthur de gobineau 1 eksemplar
Anvien Regime and the Revolution 1 eksemplar
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville(October 1, 1983) Paperback (1700) 1 eksemplar
Denocracy in America 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America - Abridged Edition (07) by Tocqueville, Alexis de - Sandage, Scott A [Paperback (2007)] (2007) 1 eksemplar
Tocqueville [Opere di] 1 eksemplar
Quince días en el desierto (Spanish Edition) 1 eksemplar
Recollections of Alex de Tocqueville 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America, Volume One 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America, F3 1 eksemplar
L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America, Volume I and II 1 eksemplar
The Recollections of Alexis De Toqueville 1 eksemplar
Democracy In America, Pt. 2 1 eksemplar
Democracy In America, Pt 1 1 eksemplar
Essential Thinkers de Tocqueville - Selections from Democracy in America (Collector's Library) by Alexis de… (1767) 1 eksemplar
Tankar om demokratin 1 eksemplar
A emancipação dos escravos 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres complètes - Alexis de Tocqueville 1 eksemplar
Voyages en Sicile et aux États-Unis 1 eksemplar
Oeuvres, papiers et correspondances 1 eksemplar
Democracy in America (Everyman's Library) 1 eksemplar
A democracia na América : leis e costumes 1 eksemplar
Egalite sociale et liberte politique: Une introduction a l'oeuvre de Tocqueville (Bibliotheque sociale) (French… (1977) 1 eksemplar
De la Démocratie en Amérique, extraits 1 eksemplar
Power of the Majority 1 eksemplar
La democracia americana 1 eksemplar
Il vecchio regime 1 eksemplar
Uber die Demokratie in Amerika 1 eksemplar
The recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville, 1 eksemplar
Journey To America 1 eksemplar
Memoir on Pauperism 1 eksemplar
La democrácia en América 1 eksemplar
Ανατομία της δημοκρατίας 1 eksemplar
La democrazia in America - Libro 1 [in I grandi filosofi. Vita, pensiero, opere scelte : 20 - Tocqueville] (1835) 1 eksemplar
旧制度与大革命 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — nogle udgaver — 490 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 255 eksemplarer
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Juridisk navn
- de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel
- Andre navne
- TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis DE
DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel
DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis Charles Henri Clerel - Fødselsdato
- 1805-07-29
- Dødsdag
- 1859-04-16
- Begravelsessted
- Tocqueville Cemetery, Normandy, France
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- France
- Fødested
- Paris, France
- Dødssted
- Cannes, France
- Dødsårsag
- Tuberculosis
- Bopæl
- Cannes, France
Verneuil-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Paris, France - Uddannelse
- Collège Royal, Metz
Lycée Fabert, Metz - Erhverv
- magistrate
political philosopher
aristocrat - Organisationer
- Chamber of Deputies (1839)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Académie française (1841)
- Kort biografi
- 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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L'antico regime e la rivoluzione af Alexis De Tocqueville
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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… (mere)
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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