scholarly journals Beyond the “Formidable Circle”: Race and the Limits of Democratic Inclusion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America *

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Dunn Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Democracy In America

Democracy and Unfreedom: Revisiting Tocqueville and Beaumont in America

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara M. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
Jacksonian America

This essay reexamines the famous 1831 prison tours of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont. It reads the three texts that emerged from their collective research practice as a trilogy, one conventionally read in different disciplinary homes ( Democracy in America in political science, On the Penitentiary in criminology, and Marie, Or Slavery: A Novel of Jacksonian America in literature). I argue that in marginalizing the trilogy’s important critique of slavery and punishment, scholars have overemphasized the centrality of free institutions and ignored the unfree institutions that also anchor American political life. The article urges scholars in political theory and political science to attend to this formative moment in mass incarceration and carceral democracy.

The French Background of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Edgar Leon Newman
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
French History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Democracy In America

“In America,” Tocqueville wrote, “I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress.”’ In other words, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is really a book about France. More than that, it is a book about the future of the world. “The whole book,” he said in his introduction to Democracy in America “has been written under the influence of a kind of religious awe produced in the author’s mind by the view of that irresistible revolution which has advanced for centuries … and which is still advancing in the midst of the ruins it has caused.” Tocqueville’s attitude was the product of his own family background, of his own education, and of French history. In this paper I would like to take up these three roots (personal, intellectual, and historical) of his Democracy in America and then give a brief overview of what he found.

Educating Tocqueville. Jared Sparks, the Boston Whigs, and Democracy in America

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-192
Author(s):  
Guy Aiken
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Whig Party ◽  
Old World ◽  
Democracy In America

Without Jared Sparks and the Boston Whigs, we might not have Democracy in America (DIA). In Boston in late September and early October 1831, Tocqueville’s interviews with New World elites—former Federalists and National Republicans who would soon establish the Whig Party in America—put the Old World aristocrat in mind of Rousseau’s “habits of the heart.”

The Whitney humanities Center the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (x) ◽  
pp. 343-343
Keyword(s):  
Rare Book ◽  
International Conference ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Democracy In America

An international conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of the second part of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

Tocqueville on Equality and Democracy: Reflections on Latin America

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
José Antonio ◽  
Aguilar Rivera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Social State ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Democracy In America

In his essay on Tocqueville and Latin America Claudio López-Guerra asserts that, according to Alexis de Tocqueville, in the XIXth century Mexico and the United States had the same social state but not the same mores. The contention that follows is that religion (Catholicism v. Protestantism) is more important than equality in shaping the mores of a democratic people. In Democracy in America Tocqueville asserted: “It is true that the Anglo-Americans brought equality of conditions with them to the New World. There were neither commoners nor nobles there, and professional prejudices were always as unknown as prejudices of birth.

Democracy in America

1967 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn L. Marshall ◽  
Alexis de Tocqueville ◽  
J. P. Mayer ◽  
Max Lerner ◽  
George Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Democracy In America
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