Democracy in America and Two Essays on AmericaPenguin, 1. juli 2003 - 992 sider A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing deomcratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been quoted by every American president since Eisenhower, and remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. This new edition is the only one that contains all Tocqueville's writings on America, including the rarely-translated Two Weeks in the Wilderness, an account of Tocqueville's travels in Michigan among the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... existence in an organized state , and the existence of the mate- rials of which it was formed . Moses had more cor- rect ideas of creation ; for the Hebrew word used him to express that act , properly signifies to form anew by ...
... existence in an organized state , and the existence of the mate- rials of which it was formed . Moses had more cor- rect ideas of creation ; for the Hebrew word used him to express that act , properly signifies to form anew by ...
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... existence of Jehovah ? Can he determine how an in- finite fpiritual effence exifts ? What idea has he of the manner of the existence of an effence , which was from eternity , and which was the firft Caufe of all other beings ? When ...
... existence of Jehovah ? Can he determine how an in- finite fpiritual effence exifts ? What idea has he of the manner of the existence of an effence , which was from eternity , and which was the firft Caufe of all other beings ? When ...
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... EXISTENCE are such as to exercise an influence which is exactly comparable to that of artificial selection . By Conditions of Existence I mean two things , there are conditions which are furnished by the physical , the inorganic world ...
... EXISTENCE are such as to exercise an influence which is exactly comparable to that of artificial selection . By Conditions of Existence I mean two things , there are conditions which are furnished by the physical , the inorganic world ...
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... existence , of all unitary individu- ality ? Men began to wonder and ques- tion , and the pre - Kantian primacy of the theoretical reason fell into disrepute . Men like Rousseau and Kant and Fichte and Schopenhauer lifted their voices ...
... existence , of all unitary individu- ality ? Men began to wonder and ques- tion , and the pre - Kantian primacy of the theoretical reason fell into disrepute . Men like Rousseau and Kant and Fichte and Schopenhauer lifted their voices ...
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... Existence ; and likewife that the Reafon of the Existence and abfolute Neceffity of an eternal un- caus'd Being was ever included in its own Nature Which Reason of abfolutely nebellary Exiftence , we have proved to be the utmost ...
... Existence ; and likewife that the Reafon of the Existence and abfolute Neceffity of an eternal un- caus'd Being was ever included in its own Nature Which Reason of abfolutely nebellary Exiftence , we have proved to be the utmost ...
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Democracy in America | 1 |
NOTES | 861 |
Two Essays on America | 873 |
TWO WEEKS IN THE WILDERNESS | 875 |
EXCURSION TO LAKE ONEIDA | 929 |
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