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