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• Chapter 1: Reception and Renown
• Chapter 2: At Old Mrs. Otis's
• Chapter 3: The American Old Regime
• Chapter 4: The Myth of Oblivion
• Chapter 5: Enduring Sage
• Chapter 6: A Cottage Industry
• Chapter 7: Lumpers and Splitters.
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In this groundbreaking new work, Matthew Mancini tells the surprising story of Alexis de Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. The author uncovers an historical record that is replete with unmistakable evidence of Tocqueville's continuing importance to American intellectuals throughout the post-Civil War period of his supposed oblivion, and also of his reputation being exaggerated by recent historians referring to the post-World War II decades. Through comprehensive analysis of Tocqueville's published works, Mancini critically examines the ways in which Tocqueville's ideas have been received and, at times, misunderstood. Mancini challenges almost every element of the common understanding of Tocqueville's reception into American intellectual culture while recovering and re-examining many important intellectuals of the last 150 years. In doing so, Mancini inscribes an important chapter in American cultural history, namely the idea of Tocqueville himself.
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It is now 200 years since the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, liberal politician and writer of genius whose great works, "Democracy in America", and the "Ancien Regime", are ever more influential and discussed. As the son of a noble family, which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, he had a front seat at the revolutionary drama of his time. His writings are hugely valuable for the study of French, British and American society during his life (he visited the US in 1831 to gather material). It is Brogan's long held ambition to write this biography. No one has yet attempted a biography of de Tocqueville in the English tradition and for that reason he is not fully present to the public imagination rather than an intellectual monument. This superb work will put that right.
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• Introduction The Reception Tocqueville's Reception in Contemporary Social Science PART ONE: THE THEORY Tocqueville's Social and Political Theory PART TWO: THE ASSESSMENT Criticisms of Tocqueville Comparison with Marx and Durkheim Conclusion.
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In this concisely written book, Pope focuses on Tocqueville's work as a social theorist. He outlines the basic elements of Tocquevilles social theory and then analyzes it in relation to the work of other early theorists, notably Marx and Durkheim, and in relation to modern theory. This book is an important addition to courses on sociological theory, and is designed to be a short, useful reference work for advanced students in sociology.
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• Une jeunesse exaltée
• Le duel
• Père à seize ans
• Le mariage impossible
• Un serment italien
• Les cours de Guizot
• Une idylle en Normandie
• Une passion anglaise
• La chute d'un roi
• Kairos
• L'aventure américaine
• La traversée
• Le choc du Nouveau Monde
• Les héros de New York
• Des vacances à Sing Sing
• Un monde d'hommes libres
• Les secrets de la réussite américaine
• Les amants du lac Oneida
• À la poursuite des Peaux-Rouges
• Les Indiens normands
• Québec : la France sans la Révolution
• Le traumatisme de l'esclavage
• Naufrage sur le Mississippi
• Entre la vie et la mort
• L'exode des Indiens
• Consécration à la Maison Blanche
• La gloire
• L'unique plaidoirie de Tocqueville
• La misère ouvrière
• Écrire la Démocratie
• Mme Récamier
• Déchirement
• Le choix de Marie
• Un châtelain de gauche
• Première victoire politique
• Député de Valognes
• La crise de la maturité
• La colonisation
• Les joies de l'Académie française
• Les infidélités d'Alexis
• L'accomplissement
• Le siège de Chamarande
• Le héraut de la révolution de 1848
• Un aristocrate élu par le peuple
• Un dîner avec George Sand
• Sur les barricades
• Un ministre et un ministère éphémères
• Le portrait de Chassériau
• Le retour à l'écriture
• Empêcher le coup d'État
• Dans les geôles de Louis-Napoléon
• L'exilé de l'intérieur
• Un triomphe chez Sa Majesté
• Les rochers de Fermanville.

"À seize ans, il fait un enfant à la couturière de la préfecture. À dix-sept, il se bat en duel pour la jeune fille qu'il aime. Puis il s'embarque pour le Nouveau Monde, partage la vie des Peaux-Rouges, fait naufrage dans le Mississippi, croise Davy Crockett et frôle la mort au fond de la forêt vierge avant d'être reçu à la Maison Blanche... Aristocrate, il devient le héraut de la démocratie. Neveu de Chateaubriand, descendant de Saint Louis, de Vauban et de Malesherbes, il vit une idylle fusionnelle et tumultueuse avec Mary Mottley, une Anglaise roturière, protestante, pauvre, de six ans son aînée, qu'il épouse contre la volonté de sa famille. Cet homme, qui publie au retour de son voyage en Amérique un livre visionnaire, c'est Alexis de Tocqueville. Français le plus connu au monde avec La Fayette, Napoléon et de Gaulle, il est davantage renommé pour ses écrits que pour sa vie, pourtant étonnante et passionnante, aux antipodes de l'image austère qui lui est habituellement prêtée. De l'Amérique à la Normandie, du jeune pionnier à l'académicien, des salons de Mme Récamier aux geôles de Napoléon III, ce roman biographique nous fait découvrir de façon aussi divertissante qu'instructive toutes les facettes de ce grand personnage."--P. [4] of cover.

This book moves beyond traditional readings of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his relevance to contemporary democracy by emphasizing the relationship of his life and work to modern feminist thought. Within the resurgence of political interest in Tocqueville during the past two decades, especially in the United States, there has been significant scholarly attention to the place of gender, race, and colonialism in his work. This is the first edited volume to gather together a range of this creative scholarship. It reveals a tidal shift in the reception history of Tocqueville as a result of his serious engagement by feminist, gender, postcolonial, and critical race theorists.The volume highlights the expressly normative nature of Tocqueville's project, thus providing an overdue counterweight to the conventional understanding of Tocquevillean America as an actual place in time and history. By reading Tocqueville alongside the writings of early women's rights activists, ethnologists, critical race theorists, contemporary feminists, neoconservatives, and his French contemporaries, among others, this book produces a variety of Tocquevilles that unsettles the hegemonic view of his work.Seen as a philosophical source and a political authority for modern democracies since the publication of the twin volumes of "Democracy in America" (1835/1840), Tocqueville emerges from this collection as a vital interlocutor for democratic theorists confronting the power relations generated by intersections of gender, sexual, racial, class, ethnic, national, and colonial identities.
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One of France's leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville's writings: the democratic revolution and the modern passion for equality.
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