Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours.0742523446 Alexis de Tocqueville Noun 1. Alexis de Tocqueville - French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859) Alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville, Tocqueville and American intellectuals; from his times to ours. Mancini, Matthew. Rowman & Littlefield 2006 255 pages $28.95 Paperback American intellectual culture E169 When de Tocqueville and Beaumont appeared on the shores of the new America, they appeared to be two scholarly French gentlemen not at all consumed by preparing a place in history for themselves. However, their legacy has become a rich source of study for American scholars who followed. Mancini (American studies, Saint Louis Saint Louis (l  `ĭs), city (1990 pop. 396,685), independent and in no county, E Mo., on the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Missouri; inc. as a city 1822. St. U.) lists and analyzes
major American secondary works, editions, and translations relating to relating to relate prep → concernantrelating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc de Tocqueville, thereby delineating a good deal of American intellectual history. The result is rather startling star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. , as Mancini discloses the errors in what was thought about what de Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote. He asserts that de Tocqueville's is a primary work explaining the experience of modernity and its relationship to societies based on equality. It also appears the reactions of others to Democracy in America De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses. depended less on its content than on what its readers really thought about democracy, and America. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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