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Democracy in America de Alexis De Tocqueville

Democracy in America

Autor Alexis De Tocqueville Editat de Richard D Heffner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2010

Observăm în această ediție Democracy in America o structură riguroasă care facilitează înțelegerea unuia dintre cele mai influente texte de științe politice scrise vreodată. Capitolul dedicat „Tiraniei majorității” rămâne, probabil, cea mai relevantă temă pentru curriculumul de profil, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra riscurilor inerente proceselor democratice. Alexis De Tocqueville nu se limitează la o descriere a instituțiilor americane, ci investighează modul în care egalitatea de condiții modifică psihologia colectivă și relațiile interumane, marcând trecerea de la structurile aristocratice europene la modernitate. Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de Tocqueville (din seria Very Short Introductions), adăugând textul sursă integral și o analiză detaliată a contextului în care autorul și-a realizat faimosul turneu în America. În contextul operei sale, volumul de față servește drept fundament pentru Ancien Regime and the Revolution, unde autorul aplică aceleași metode de analiză comparativă pentru a explica eșecul reformelor în Franța pre-revoluționară. Structura cărții, organizată în două părți principale, ghidează cititorul de la fundamentele sociale și suveranitatea poporului către mecanismele care temperează puterea politică, precum sistemul judiciar și libertatea presei. Această ediție Signet Classics, editată de Richard C. Heffner, reușește să mențină echilibrul între rigoarea academică și accesibilitate, oferind un aparat critic ce include viața autorului și moștenirea lăsată de ideile sale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780451531605
ISBN-10: 0451531604
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 108 x 174 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

O lectură fundamentală pentru studenții la științe politice și sociologie, dar și pentru orice cetățean interesat de mecanismele puterii. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care egalitatea influențează nu doar guvernarea, ci și cultura și moravurile unei națiuni. Este un instrument esențial pentru a descifra dilemele democrațiilor contemporane printr-o analiză clasică, dar surprinzător de actuală.

Despre autor

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) a fost un gânditor politic, istoric și scriitor francez, considerat unul dintre pionierii sociologiei și ai științelor politice comparate. Trimis inițial în Statele Unite pentru a studia sistemul penitenciar, el a produs o analiză exhaustivă a democrației americane care rămâne un punct de referință global. Opera sa este marcată de o preocupare constantă pentru echilibrul dintre libertate și egalitate, temă explorată extensiv și în lucrarea sa despre Vechiul Regim din Franța.

Descriere scurtă

French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville's classic treatise on the American way of life.

Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and dangers of majority rule—which he thought could be as tyrannical as the rule of a monarchy. He analyzes the influence of political parties and the press on the government and the effect of equality on the social, political, and economic life of the American people. He also offers some startling predictions about world politics, which history has borne out. So brilliant and penetrating are his comments and criticisms, they have vital meaning today for all who are interested in democracy.

Abridged and with an Introduction by Richard D. Heffner
and an Afterword by Vartan Gregorian

Notă biografică

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 to a noble French family that had survived the French Revolution. His father gained some political power under the reign of the Bourbons, and after the July Revolution of 1830, the family was exiled along with the king. Tocqueville, then twenty-five years old, stayed in France, swearing allegiance to the new government. Shortly thereafter he and a friend, Gustave de Beaumont, sought and received a government assignment to study the prison system of the United States. They arrived in America in 1831. After extensive travels across the young nation, Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America (published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840). The publication of the first volume made Tocqueville a well-known figure, but he led a quiet life, accepting modest governmental posts, traveling around Europe, and marrying an Englishwoman. In 1848, Tocqueville once again rose to political prominence after a prescient speech that foretold of revolution. After serving through the massive upheavals and overthrows of government, Tocqueville retired from political life in 1849. Always weak in health, his lung disease grew progressively worse from that period on. Moving south several times on doctor’s recommendations, Tocqueville succumbed to death in 1859, in Cannes.
Richard D. Heffner received his A.B. and M.A. from Columbia University and has taught history and political science at the University of California, Sarah Lawrence College, and the New School for Social Research. He has been University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers since 1964. Mr. Heffner also produces and moderates his prize-winning weekly public television series, The Open Mind, and for twenty years was Chairman of the motion picture industry’s film rating system. In addition to Democracy in America, Mr. Heffner is the editor of the Mentor book A Documentary History of the United States.

Descriere

Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French nobleman and an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. His brilliant discussion of majority rule is still vitally relevant today. Revised reissue.

Recenzii

A handy paperback edition offered primarily to teachers and students who can make no pretense of reading the entirety of the large work, but who want to sample some of its chief delights. . . . [Grant gives us an] exemplary translation . . . marked above all by great accuracy and fidelity to Tocqueville's text. . . . Kessler's editor's Introduction is a model introduction to a classic text for today’s students. It is clearly written, compact (without being too short or dense), and nicely structured. . . . A tour--and translation--well worth the price of admission. --Paul Seaton, Perspectives on Political Science

A fine piece of work. Kessler has presented one of the best summaries of Tocqueville's thought that I know of. The translation represents a clear improvement over both the Bradley translation and the Lawrence translation. In numerous cases, Grant has provided extremely useful notes covering the range of meanings and historical background of important concepts. Anyone teaching a course calling for selections from Tocqueville cannot do better than this volume. --Christopher Kelly, Boston College

This is an excellent product--a major improvement over the other available versions. I will use it when I teach Tocqueville. --Donald T. Maletz, University of Oklahoma

Textul de pe ultima copertă

The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America's culture and people
Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago.
This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.

Cuprins

ForewordPrefaceA Note about the Text and TranslationList of IllustrationsPART ONEIntroduction: Tocqueville and His Tour de ForceTocqueville’s Life and Character The Journey in America Content and Key Themes of the Work How Democracy in America Was Received The Relevance and Legacy of Democracy in AmericaPART TWO Democracy in AmericaVolume I Author’s Introduction Part I
  1. America’s Founding and Its Importance for the Future of Anglo-Americans
  2. Anglo-American Social Conditions
  3. The Principle of the sovereignty of the People in America
  4. The Need to Examine What Happens in Individual States Before Discussing the Government of the Whole Part II
  5. Why It Is Accurate To Say That In The United States, The People Govern
  6. The Real Advantages Derived By American Society From Democratic Government
  7. The Omnipotence of the Majority in the United States and Its Consequences
  8. What tempers the Tyranny of the Majority
  9. The Principal Causes Tending to Preserve a Democratic Republic in the United States
  10. A Few Remarks on Present and Probable Future Conditions of the Three Races Living Within the United States Volume II
    Preface
    Part I: The Influence of Democracy Upon the Intellectual Development of the United States
  11. The Principal Source of Beliefs Among Democratic Countries
  12. The Spirit in which Americans Cultivate the Arts
  13. Literary Production
  14. Certain Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Centuries Part II: Influence of Democracy on the Opinions of Americans
  15. Individualism in Democratic Society
  16. Individualism is Greater Following a Democratic Revolution Than In Any Other Period
  17. Americans Minimize Individualism with Free Institutions
  18. The Role of Voluntary Associations in America
  19. The Relationship Between Associations and Newspapers
  20. Connections Between Voluntary and Political Associations
  21. Americans Overcome Individualism Through the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood
  22. The Taste for Material Comfort in America
  23. Why Americans Appear So Restless Amidst Their Prosperity
  24. How Americans’ Love of Material Comfort Combines with the Love of Liberty and a Concern for Public Affairs
  25. How Aristocracy May Result from Industry Part III: Influence of Democracy on Customs as Such
  26. Education of Girls in the United States
  27. The Young Woman as Wife
  28. How Social Equality Helps Maintain Moral Behavior in America
  29. What Americans Mean by Equality of Men and Women
  30. American Society Appears Both Restless and Monotonous
  31. Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare Part IV: The Influence Exercised by Democratic Ideas and Attitudes on Politics
  32. Equality Naturally Leads to A Desire For Free Institutions
  33. The Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear
  34. An Overview of the Subject
APPENDIXES A Tocqueville Chronology (1805-1859) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index

Caracteristici

An abridged version of Tocqeville' classic text
Chapters selected are those that are, by consensus among scholars and teachers, the most representative of Tocqueville's thinking and those that continue to have considerable resonance
Editor's introduction helps students get the most out of the work, providing historical and intellectual background