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Alexis de Tocqueville

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alexis de Tocqueville , 1805-59, French politician and writer. He was prominent in politics, particularly just before and just after the Revolution of 1848 (see revolutions of 1848 ), and was minister of foreign affairs briefly in 1849. His observations made in 1831 during a government mission to the United States to study the penal system resulted in De la démocratie en Amérique (2 vol., 1835; tr. Democracy in America, 4 vol., 1835-40), one of the classics of political literature. A liberal whose deepest commitment was to human freedom, Tocqueville believed that political... Read more
Tocqueville, Alexis
Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de (1805–59), French liberal politician and writer, at the request of his government came to the U.S. (May 1831...impartial, the study has taken its place as the earliest important analysis of its subject. In his survey of American literature, Tocqueville finds a ... Read more
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–59) An early French sociologist who travelled to the United States between 1831 and 1832 to observe democracy at...decentralized mode of government to which people had ready access, and in which they could participate. In both cases, however, Tocqueville warned against ... Read more

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Looking for America.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
; ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A LIFE by HUGH BROGAN Yale University...by Joshua Mitchell HUGH BROGAN'S Alexis de Tocqueville is a masterful work, the fruit...is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook... Read more
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours.(Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours, American Intellectual Culture)(Book review)
; Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From...00, ISBN 978-0-7425-2343-2.) In Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From...intellectuals' interaction with Tocqueville's writings. To no nineteenth-century... Read more
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours
; Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From...00, ISBN 978-0-7425-2343-2.) In Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From...intellectuals' interaction with Tocqueville's writings. "To no nineteenth-century... Read more
Tocqueville's journey on C-SPAN.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
; Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont...Beaumont's telling novel and Tocqueville's penultimate magnum opus...March 1998, C-SPAN traced Tocqueville and Beaumont's trip from...Rationale The impetus for the Tocqueville series came from several...contemporary political figures use ... Read more
The rift in the modern mind: Tocqueville and Percy on the rise of the Cartesian self.(Alexis de Tocqueville; Walker Percy)
; Abstract: Alexis de Tocqueville and Walker Percy are two of the...ills. Keywords: democratic man, Alexis de Tocqueville, language, modernity, Walker Percy, semiotics ********** Alexis de Tocqueville and Walker Percy are two of the... Read more
Profile: Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville
; ...anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville Host: MADELEINE BRAND Time...the words of French writer Alexis de Tocqueville. Unidentified Man: The American...GREGORY FOSSEDAL (Chair, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution): It's like a... Read more
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
; Tocqueville, Alexis de Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life. Hugh Brogan. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. 724 pp $35.00. Hugh Brogan has taken almost forty-five years to write Alexis de Tocqueville. He began work as a graduate student and finished the book... Read more
A Cousin worthy of visiting.(Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life)(Book review)
; Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan (New Haven...2006). 724 pp. Having written on Tocqueville, modern France, and the history of...attention the eighteen volumes of Tocqueville's Oeuvres, especially the last three... Read more
Tocqueville, Alexis de Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
; Tocqueville, Alexis de Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution. Hugh Brogan...observes, even at the distance of nearly two centuries many of De Tocqueville's observations on American democracy, equality and liberty... Read more
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide.(Brief article)(Book review)
; AND Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide. Joseph...beat around the bush: Tocqueville's cousin and confidant...mini-essays on pivotal topics--Tocqueville's relationship with his...Foucault's reading of Tocqueville's ideas of incarceration...Joseph Epstein's brief 'Alexis de ... Read more

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