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Prof. William R. Cook describes Tocquevilles experiences as described in Democracy in America. The most likely way for America to fall into despotism is to curtail freedom of speech, and to increase the centralization of government to the point that people no longer have to think and take care of themselves.
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Prof. William R. Cook describes Tocquevilles experiences as described in Democracy in America. "The omnipotence of the majority appears to me such a great peril for the American republic's that the dangerous means used to limit it seem to me even a good"
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May 25, 1997 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 -- 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing and GK Chesterton, though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticised it for sentimentality and implausibility. American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist. His American journey was also an inspiration for his <b>...</b>
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Push CC button to watch with subtitles. Excerpt from an interview by Sylvain B. -Whatever the merits of the metaphysical underpinnings of Nietzsche's thought, his greatest fear was indeed the creeping mediocrity brought about by democratic freedom and universal equality. "The wasteland grows," Nietzsche wrote, and by that he meant that the devastation was growing wider. Today Houellebecq is living witness to the horrible truth: 180 years after Tocquevilles prediction, the devastation is near-complete and Europe has entered the phase of the last man. Caught up in it, one wonders at just how easily the devastation of the earth goes hand in hand with an almost guaranteed medium or high living standard for everybody, and also at how effective, including even at the molecular level, it is in its organized establishment of the uniform state of happiness predicted by Tocqueville. What is most uncanny is indeed that while the devastation haunts everybody everywhere, it does so exactly by keeping itself hidden. This is also the reason why it is so easy to ignore by keeping the music turned on and oneself either busy or entertained or both. The words "the wasteland grows" come from another place than all the current talk of economic and environmental crisis. And to the words Nietzsche added: "Woe to him who hides wastelands within."
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Prof. William R. Cook describes de Tocqueville's experiences that those inside a certain circle of political thought are given reign to conduct political activities, while those outside the circle are marginalized. He was concerned of possible loss of free speech due to the tyranny of the majority, and that top-down government administration would erode vigorous local discussion and contribute to loss of free speech.
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Every year, the Tocqueville Program sponsors a course and brings prominent public intellectuals to Furman's campus with the aim encouraging serious and open engagement with the moral questions at the heart of political life. The program takes its name from Alexis de Tocqueville, perhaps the greatest student of modern democracy, who understood both the difficulty and the necessity of reminding citizens of a decent and prosperous regime about questions of truth, nobility and eternity. These questions are not always comfortable to discuss and are never easily resolved; but, as Tocqueville understood, these questions cannot be ignored by human beings who seek to live lives of freedom and dignity. For the next two years, the Tocqueville Program will focus on the theme of Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy. From the beginning of the American Republic, our best statesman and thinkers have seen an essential connection between liberal democracy and liberal education. According to Thomas Jefferson, the extensive educational plan he proposed for his native Virginia was a necessary means for "rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty." The rigorous education in politics and history Jefferson envisioned, however, has little relation to what is taught in American universities today. In spite of a price tag that strains the limits of middle-class credulity, our universities and colleges often offer curricula with little apparent <b>...</b>
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Every year, the Tocqueville Program sponsors a course and brings prominent public intellectuals to Furman's campus with the aim encouraging serious and open engagement with the moral questions at the heart of political life. The program takes its name from Alexis de Tocqueville, perhaps the greatest student of modern democracy, who understood both the difficulty and the necessity of reminding citizens of a decent and prosperous regime about questions of truth, nobility and eternity. These questions are not always comfortable to discuss and are never easily resolved; but, as Tocqueville understood, these questions cannot be ignored by human beings who seek to live lives of freedom and dignity. For the next two years, the Tocqueville Program will focus on the theme of Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy. From the beginning of the American Republic, our best statesman and thinkers have seen an essential connection between liberal democracy and liberal education. According to Thomas Jefferson, the extensive educational plan he proposed for his native Virginia was a necessary means for "rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty." The rigorous education in politics and history Jefferson envisioned, however, has little relation to what is taught in American universities today. In spite of a price tag that strains the limits of middle-class credulity, our universities and colleges often offer curricula with little apparent <b>...</b>
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3:00 pm in Jepson Hall, Room 120 Amy Kaplan, Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, presented the lecture Transnational Melville as part of the Tocqueville Lecture Series. Professor Kaplan is the author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of US Culture (2005) and The Social Construction of American Realism (1992), and co-editor of Cultures of U S. Imperialism (1994), as well as a series of recent essays that examine culture and imperialism in the twenty-first century. She is currently working on two projects, one titled In the Name of Homeland Security, and the other a study of American Zionism, which explores the cultural dimensions of the United States support for Israel in the twentieth century. She was president of the American Studies Association in 2003. Professor Kaplans lecture examines Melville's travel writing in order to interrogate today's evolving paradigm of transnational literary criticism. Treating Melville as a writer whose fiction theorizes the relations among national, colonial, and international spaces in the nineteenth century, she will explore how texts such as the novel Clarel relay transnational circuits of knowledge and imagine collectivities not bound by the nation state.
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Professor William Cook explains how the book Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqeville stated that not only are civil associations good for self-government, but a necessary component of it. An example given is the Hearthside Cats of Geneseo New York hearthsidecats.org
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This lecture by Steven Pittz of the University of Texas at Austin integrates Alexis de Tocqueville's two greatest works, Democracy in America and the Old Regime and the Revolution, in terms of his understanding of two quintessential democratic forces: equality and centralization. Pittz expounds the reciprocal relationship between these two forces, intimating profound implications for politics in contemporary America and France.
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Hear little Brian pull liberally from Alexis de Toqueville. People in the USA need to remember the power of political association. Vigorous association is the much needed balance to the concentration of power by the entities that dominate politics. Here's the link to Alexis de Tocqueville -- Chapter 12: POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES xroads.virginia.edu
Peter Carey explains how he conducts historical science fiction in his new book "Parrot and Olivier," inspired by Alexis de Tocqueville's travels in the United States... Backstage at LIVE from the NYPL, April 20, 2010.
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Extrait de l'ouvrage De la démocratie en Amérique (II, IV, 6), publié en 1840. « Après avoir pris ainsi tour à tour dans ses puissantes mains chaque individu, et l'avoir pétri à sa guise, le souverain étend ses bras sur la société tout entière; il en couvre la surface d'un réseau de petites règles compliquées, minutieuses et uniformes, à travers lesquelles les esprits les plus originaux et les âmes les plus vigoureuses ne sauraient faire jour pour dépasser la foule; il ne brise pas les volontés, mais il les amollit, les plie et les dirige; il force rarement d'agir, mais il s'oppose sans cesse à ce qu'on agisse; il ne détruit point, il empêche de naître; il ne tyrannise point, il gêne, il comprime, il énerve, il éteint, il hébète, et il réduit enfin chaque nation à n'être plus qu'un troupeau d'animaux timides et industrieux, dont le gouvernement est le berger.» Alexis de Tocqueville DE LA DÉMOCRATIE EN AMÉRIQUE (1840) Crédit audio: www.litteratureaudio.com
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