Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147): A new translation by Arthur GoldhammerLibrary of America, 2004 M02 9 - 928 páginas An exclusive new translation of the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society—“the bible on democracy” (The Texas Observer) This Library of America volume presents de Tocqueville’s masterpiece in an entirely new translation—the first to fully capture his style and provide a rigorous, faithful rendering of his profound ideas and observations Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in this landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the vital role of religion in American life, and the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest. He also probes the deep differences between the free and slave states, writing prophetically of racism, bigotry, and prejudice in the United States. Brought to life by Arthur Goldhammer’s clear, fluid, and vigorous translation, this volume of Democracy in America is the first to fully capture Tocqueville’s achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a profound political thinker. |
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Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
The Outward Configuration of North America | 21 |
On the Point of Departure and Its Importance | 31 |
Social State of the AngloAmericans | 52 |
On the Principle of Popular Sovereignty | 62 |
On Judicial Power in the United States and | 111 |
On Political Judgment in the United States | 120 |
On the Federal Constitution | 126 |
On the Particular Effects of the Love | 620 |
How the Taste for Material Gratifications | 629 |
How Excessive Love of WellBeing | 638 |
Why Nearly All Americans Are Inclined | 644 |
PART III | 652 |
How Democracy Simplifies and Eases | 660 |
Consequences of the Three Previous Chapters | 667 |
How Democracy Modifies Relations Between Servant and Master | 669 |
PART II | 132 |
Why It Is Strictly Accurate to Say That in | 197 |
CONTENTS | 202 |
On Freedom of the Press in the United States | 205 |
On Political Association in the United States | 215 |
On the Government of Democracy in America | 224 |
What Are the Real Advantages to American | 264 |
On the Omnipotence of the Majority in | 283 |
On That Which Tempers the Tyranny of | 301 |
On the Principal Causes That Tend to Maintain | 319 |
Some Considerations Concerning the Present | 365 |
VOLUME | 477 |
On the Philosophical Method of the Americans | 483 |
On the Principal Source of Beliefs Among | 489 |
Why the Americans Have Never Been | 499 |
On the Progress of Catholicism in | 510 |
How the Example of the Americans Does | 516 |
Why Americans Devote Themselves More to | 522 |
In What Spirit Americans Cultivate the Arts | 530 |
Why Americans Build Such Insignificant | 536 |
On the Literary Industry | 544 |
On Some Sources of Poetry in Democratic | 554 |
Why American Writers and Orators | 561 |
On Certain Tendencies Peculiar to Historians | 569 |
PART II | 576 |
On Individualism in Democratic Countries | 585 |
On the Use That Americans Make | 595 |
Relations Between Civil Associations | 604 |
How Americans Combat Individualism with | 610 |
How Americans Apply the Doctrine | 614 |
How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise Prices and Shorten the Terms of Leases | 679 |
Influence of Democracy on Wages | 682 |
Influence of Democracy on the Family | 685 |
Raising Girls in the United States | 692 |
How the Traits of the Girl Can Be Divined in the Wife | 695 |
How Equality of Conditions Helps to Maintain Good Morals in America | 698 |
How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and Woman | 705 |
How Equality Naturally Divides the Americans into a Multitude of Small Private Societies | 709 |
Some Reflections on American Manners | 711 |
On the Gravity of Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Them from Acting Rashly | 715 |
Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Restless and Argumentative Than That of the English | 719 |
How Society in the United States Seems Both Agitated and Monotonous | 722 |
On Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies | 725 |
Why There Are So Many Ambitious Men and So Few Great Ambitions in the United States | 738 |
On PlaceHunting in Certain Democratic Nations | 745 |
Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare | 747 |
Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally Desire War | 761 |
Which Class in Democratic Armies Is the Most | 768 |
On Discipline in Democratic Armies | 777 |
ON THE INFLUENCE THAT DEMOCRATIC IDEAS | 785 |
How the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples | 793 |
How Sovereign Power in Todays European | 803 |
What Kind of Despotism Democratic Nations | 816 |
Continuation of the Preceding Chapters | 822 |
General View of the Subject | 831 |
Tocquevilles Notes 835 | 852 |
Translators Note | 873 |
Note on the Texts | 907 |
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