Books by Alexis de Tocqueville

The volume includes six articles Tocqueville wrote during the same period calling for the emancipation of slaves in France's Caribbean colonies.

In the early nineteenth century, a French sociologist and political scientist undertook a seven-month journey throughout the newly formed United States. Alexis de Tocqueville surveyed the young nation's religious, political, and economic character and reported his findings in two volumes, published in 1835 and 1840. Two centuries later, Democracy in America remains among the most astute and influential surveys of American politics and society. de Tocqueville focuses on why republican representative democracy prevailed in the United States, tracing its success from the state of equality established by the early Puritan settlers through the American Revolution and adoption of the Constitution. His speculations on the future of democracy offer prescient, thought-provoking reading, and his classic work remains a touchstone for modern thinkers on government. This edition is based on the earliest approved translation, which has served as the standard version for over a century and comes closest to reflecting the author's insights as perceived by his contemporaries. www.doverpublications.com

Franskmanden Alexis de Tocqueville er den tænker, som allertydeligst har gjort opmærksom på de mulige konsekvenser for menneskets frihed, som filosoffen Jean Jacques Rousseaus ideer om demokrati og folkeviljens suverænitet ville kunne få. Tocqueville minder folk om, at politisk og åndelig frihed ikke kan sikres, men bestandigt må tilkæmpes, fordi netop denne frihed gør mennesket i stand til at skabe sin egen undergang.I "Frihed - Lighed" har Ingeborg Buhl samlet og oversat nogle af Tocquevilles væsenligste tekster fra værkerne "La démocratie en Amérique", "L'ancien régime et la révolution" og "Souvenirs". Særligt "Demokrati i Amerika" er et banebrydende og klassisk værk inden for den politiske filosofi, hvor netop forholdet mellem frihed og lighed bliver diskuteret, og det har siden sin udgivelse i 1835-1840 bevaret sin relevans for analyse af politik, samfundsstrukturer og -idealer.Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) var en fransk diplomat, historiker, politisk teoretiker og politiker. Han var en årrække udenrigsminister i Frankrig, og han betragtes af mange som den første moderne samfundsforsker. Særligt hans værk "Demokratiet i Amerika" ses som et pionerarbejde inden for sociologi og statskundskab.

This extraordinary series of observations on England and Ireland complements de Tocqueville's masterpieces on the United States and France in the mid-nineteenth century

This English edition of "Democracy in America" features Eduardo Nolla's incisive notes to James Schleifer's English translation of the French text, with an extensive selection of early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials.

De Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French revolution remains one of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal period.

The Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 59) is an objective observer of both periods providing a merciless critique of the ancien r gime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today.

This translation is considered by many to be the definitive edition of de Tocqueville's classic work. Annotated, and with substantial references, placing the work and its author in the broader contexts of political philosophy, the volume also contains a comprehensive introduction.