Bücher von Alexis de Tocqueville

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Die Pauperismus-Studie des französischen Historikers, Soziologen und Politikers Alexis de Tocqueville zählt in Frankreich längst zu den Klassikern der Armutsforschung. In Deutschland ist sie dagegen weitgehend unbekannt. Das ist umso bedauerlicher, als Tocqueville hier dem Problem der Massenarmut im Zuge der einsetzenden Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert mit derselben intellektuellen Schärfe, sprachlichen Präzision und vergleichenden Methodik zu Leibe rückt, die auch seine berühmten Schriften zur Demokratie in Amerika und zum vorrevolutionären Frankreich kennzeichnen. Tocqueville untersucht die Armut als gesellschaftspolitisches Phänomen zwischen den beiden Extrempolen individuelle Verantwortung und gemeinschaftlich organisierte Solidarität, die - in sehr unterschiedlicher Gewichtung - auch für den modernen Sozialstaat in den entwickelten Industrieländern konstitutiv sind. Die Armutsphänomene bzw. Verarmungstendenzen in einem ausgebauten Wohlfahrtsstaat wie Deutschland zeigen, dass Tocquevilles Erkenntnisse auch heute noch überraschende Brisanz besitzen.Mit einem ausführlichen Nachwort von Manfred Füllsack, der Tocquevilles Schriften vor dem zeitlichen Hintergrund ihres Entstehens erläutert und aus heutiger Sicht kommentiert.

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.

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Ce mémoire a été présenté à la Société académique de Cherbourg en 1835. Il s’agit d’une analyse de fond de la gestion de la pauvreté dans une société donnée, en général mais plus précisément dans une société moderne divisée en plusieurs «classes sociales».Pour ce faire, il remonte jusqu’au XIIème siècle où seules deux catégories existaient : ceux qui possédaient la terre et ceux qui la travaillaient...Ce recueil inclut aussi le second mémoire sur le paupérisme, mémoire écrit en 1837 au moment où l’auteur allait se présenter, pour la pre-mière fois, aux législatives dans la circonscription de Valognes. Mémoire inachevé et non publié.

Ces Souvenirs, publiés en 1893, ont été lus, relus et maintes fois cités, en raison d’abord d’une qualité littéraire qui ne faillit pas : l’art du portrait, le génie de la formule, la lucidité du témoin produisent des morceaux de bravoure saisissants. Source historique sur l’« apprentissage du suffrage universel » et les travaux de la Constituante, le livre donne à réfléchir sur l’impuissance (provisoire) du « centrisme », serré dans l’étau des passions antagoniques. Hostile aux chefs de la gauche, Tocqueville redoute l’esprit de revanche de la droite qui risque soit de replonger le pays dans les tumultes révolutionnaires, soit d’aboutir à la trique maniée par un prince-président qui en finirait avec la république. Les conditions d’un régime républicain modéré ne seront réunies qu’une trentaine d’années plus tard.

The first English-language edition published in 1838 and translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. with Preface and notes by John C. Spencer. This landmark work initiated a dialogue about the nature of democracy and the United States and its people that continues to this day. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville [1805-1859] and Gustave de Beaumont [fl.1835] traveled through the United States on behalf of the French government to study American prisons, which were renowned for their progressive and humane methods. They were pleased to accept this assignment because they were intrigued by the idea of American democracy. Tocqueville and Beaumont spent nine months in the country, traveling as far west as Michigan and as far south as New Orleans. Throughout the tour, Tocqueville used his social connections to arrange meetings with several prominent and influential thinkers of the day. Tocqueville recorded his thoughts on the structure of the government and the judicial system, and commented on everyday people and the nation's political culture and social institutions. His observations on slavery, in particular, are impassioned and critical. These notes formed the basis of Democracy in America.