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The author's "Democracy in America" under another title. ; Half-title: Democracy in America. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Part of a CIHM set. For individual microfiches in this set, see CIHM microfiche nos. 41312-41314. ; Added t.p.: The world's great classics. ; "Volume I." ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44

Part of a CIHM set. For individual microfiches in this set see CIHM microfiche nos. 51236-51238. ; "Volume I." ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44

Contiene: T. I (XXIX, 226 p.) ; Mode of access: Internet.

'The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville' contains original interpretations of Tocqueville's major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser-known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. The Introduction by Daniel Gordon discusses how Tocqueville was canonized during the Cold War and the need to reassess the place of Tocqueville's voice in the conversation of post-Marxist social theory. Each chapter that follows compares Tocqueville's ideas on a given subject with those of other major social theorists, including Bourdieu, Dahl, Du Bois, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss and Marx.

Contiene : Vol. 1 -- Vol. 2 -- Vol. 3. ; Mode of access: Internet.

A translation of the first volume of "De la démocratie en Amérique". ; Mode of access: Internet.

The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earlier work on the explanation of social behavior, Elster argues that Tocqueville's main claim to our attention today rests on the large number of exportable causal mechanisms to be found in his work, many of which are still worthy of further exploration. Elster proposes a novel reading of Democracy in America in which the key explanatory variable is the rapid economic and political turnover rather than equality of wealth at any given point in time. He also offers a reading of The Ancien Régime and the Revolution as grounded in the psychological relations among the peasantry, the bourgeoisie, and the nobility. Consistently going beyond exegetical commentary, he argues that Tocqueville is eminently worth reading today for his substantive and methodological insights