Tocqueville: Frenchman for all Seasons?Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2000. xciii, 722 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth).Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America and Two Essays on America, translated by Gerald Bevan, with an Introduction by Isaac Kramnick and Notes by Jeff Seliger. New York, N.Y., Penguin, 2003. lii, 896 pp. $10.00 U.S. (paper).Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, Vol.One, edited and with an introduction and critical apparatus by Francois Furet and Francoise Melonio; translated by Alan S. Kahan. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi, 451 pp. $32.50 U.S. (cloth).Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, by Sheldon Wolin. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001. viii, 650 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth).The Tocqueville Reader. A Life in Letters and Politics, edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan. Maiden, MA, Oxford, Melbourne, and Berlin, Blackwell Publishing, 2002. xviii, 358 pp. $24.95 U.S. (paper).Alexis de Tocqueville, Writings on Empire and Slavery, edited and translated by Jennifer Pitts. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxxviii, 277 pp. $47.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.95 U.S. (paper).

2003 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-306
Author(s):  
Klaus J. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Sheldon Wolin ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
The Revolution

Tocqueville in English

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-155
Author(s):  
Jon Elster
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
French Language ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
Or History ◽  
The Revolution

Tocqueville's two major works, Democracy in America and The Old regime and the revolution, have fared very differently in English translation. The Lawrence translation of Democracy in America is essentially accurate, except for a handful of mistakes. The classical translation by Gilbert of The Old Regime was excessively free and rhetorical, but did not betray lack of understanding of French language or history. A new translation published by University of Chicago Press suffers from the opposite flaws. While trying to follow the original very closely, the translator got many things wrong because of a demonstrable lack of proficiency in French.

Actualité bibliographique: Tocqueville sans voile

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Laurence Guellec
Keyword(s):  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
The Revolution

Robert T. Gannett Jr, Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and his Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution, Chicago & London, The University of Chicago Press, 2003, 246 p.

scholarly journals Hacia una crítica de la razón histórica: la historia filosofante de Kant

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Daniel Caballero López
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Moral Faith ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
Theoretical Philosophy

Resumen En el presente artículo (i) se desarrolla una crítica al discurso histórico-filosófico de Kant para explicitar sus condiciones de posibilidad, desde lo cual se erige un modelo hermenéutico que (ii) hace inteligible la historia filosofante de la filosofía presente en Los progresos de la metafísica desde los tiempos de Leibniz y Wolff, mostrando cómo las condiciones operan allí y constituyen una determinada narrativa que da cuenta de las perspectivas desde las cuales se ofrece la historia; después (iii) se realiza la interpretación de la historia desde el modelo con el fin de señalar su sostenibilidad; al final, (iv) se vincula la historia filosófica con la propia filosofía trascendental de Kant, legitimando con ello al modelo y señalando cómo el horizonte del proyecto crítico es esa misma historia. Palabras clave Metafísica: Historia; Razón; Teleología; Discurso. Referencias Allison, Henry E., Kant’s Transcendental Idealism. An Interpretation and Defense, USA: Yale University Press, 2004. Allison, H. E., Editor’s Introduction, a What real progress has metaphysics made in Germany since the time of Leibniz and Wolff?, en Kant, Immanuel, Theoretical Philosophy after 1781, edit. Henry Allison, Peter Heath, Cambridge University Press, USA, 2002. Allison, Henry E., “General Introduction”, en Kant, Immanuel, Theoretical Philosophy after 1781, edit. Henry Allison y Peter Heath, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Beiser, Frederick C., “Moral Faith and the Highest Good”, en The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, edit. Paul Guyer, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Caimi, Mario, “La metafísica de Kant”, en Kant, Immanuel, Los Progresos de la metafísica desde los tiempos de Leibniz y Wolff, trad. Mario Caimi, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, UNAM, UAM, 2011. Duque, Félix, “Estudio Introductorio”, en Kant, Immanuel, Los progresos de la metafísica, trad. Félix Duque, Madrid: Tecnos, 1987. Ferrarin, Alberto, The Powers of Reason. Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy, USA: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Grondin, Jean, Introduction to Metaphysics. From Parmenides to Levinas, trad. Lukas Soderstorm, USA: Columbia University Press, 2012. Guyer, Paul, “The Unity of Nature and Freedom”, en Guyer, Paul, Kant’s System of Nature and Freedom, USA: Oxford University Press, 2005. Heidegger, Martin, Kant y el problema de la metafísica, trad. Gred Ibscher Roth, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996. Kant, El conflicto de las facultades, trad. Roberto Rodríguez Aramayo, en Immanuel Kant, Kant III, España: Gredos, 2014. Kant, Immanuel, Idea para una historia universal en clave cosmopolita, trad. Roberto Rodríguez Aramayo, en Immanuel Kant, Kant III, España: Gredos, 2014. Kant, Immanuel, Crítica de la razón pura, trad. Mario Caimi, México: FCE, UNAM, UAM, 2011. Kant, Immanuel, Los progresos de la metafísica, trad. Mario Caimi, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, UNAM, UAM, 2011. Kant, Immanuel, Conjectural beginning of human history, trad. Allen W. Wood, en Immanuel Kant, Anthropology, History and Education, edit. Gunter Zoller, Robert B. Louden, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Kant, Immanuel, On the use of teleological principles in philosophy, trad. Gunter Zoeller, en Kant, Immanuel, Anthropology, History and Education, edit. Gunter Zoller, Robert B. Louden, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Kant, Immanuel, On a recently prominent tone of superiority in philosophy, trad. Peter Heath, en Kant, Immanuel, Theoretical Philosophy after 1781, edit. Henry Allison, Peter Heath, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Kant, Immanuel, Proclamation of the imminent conclusion of a treaty of perpetual peace in philosophy, trad. Peter Heath, en Kant, Immanuel, Theoretical Philosophy after 1781, edit. Henry Allison, Peter Heath, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Kerszberg, Pierre, Critique and Totality, USA State University of New York Press, USA, 1997. Kuhen, Manfred, “Kant’s Critical Philosophy and its Reception –the first five yearse (1781-1786)”, en The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy, edit. Paul Guyer, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Leibniz, Gottfried, El método verdadero, trad. J. Echeverría, en Leibniz, Leibniz, España: Gredos 2014. Longuenesse, Béatrice, Kant and the Capacity to Judge. Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason, trad. Charles T. Wolfe, USA: Princeton University Press, 1998. Lyotard, Jean-Francois, Enthusiasm. The Kantian Critique of History, trad. Georges Van Den Abbeele, USA: Standford University Press, 2009. Martínez Marzoa, Felipe, Historia de la filosofía antigua, Madrid: Akal, 1995. Martínez Marzoa, Felipe, Releer a Kant, España: Anthropos, 1989. Platón, Fedón, trad. Carlos García Gual, en Platón, Platón I, España: Gredos, 2014. 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Tocqueville's Old Regime: Political History

1981 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-111
Author(s):  
Delba Winthrop
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Political History ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Democracy In America ◽  
The Revolution

It has been said of Alexis de Tocqueville that he is the most frequently quoted and least read author of all, rivaling and surpassing even William Shakespeare for this dubious honor. Virtually every American social scientist who as much as pays lip service to tradition manages to quote Tocqueville at least once. But this deference is to the author of Democracy in America, not of The Old Regime and the Revolution, for the latter book is, with the exception of one passage, neither read nor quoted. The Old Regime is neglected today because it is a political history, and today political history is not appreciated. What is “political history”?Tocqueville's “political history” belongs to a genre of which he considered Montesquieu's “Sur la grandeur et la decadence des Romains” to be the finest example. Tocqueville thought that the nature and habits of his intellect suited him to evaluating modern societies and foreseeing their probable futures, but at the same time he believed he could do this most effectively in historical studies. While flatly denying that one can learn lessons from history in any simple sense, he did nonetheless hold that from an examination of historical particulars one can grasp the universal principles of social existence. His intention in writing The Old Regime was to enable his reader to achieve this same grasp. He, like Montesquieu, would not merely recount facts, but make known their causes and consequences and judge them. He would have to choose his facts well, so that they supported his theses. He would have to present them without making “the character of the work … visible” in the hope that “the reader would be conducted naturally from one reflection to another by the interest of the narrative.” Thus what I have called political history is understood by Tocqueville to be a selective, but not necessarily incorrect, use of the facts of history for the purposes of shedding light on the present and of teaching others to see and judge the present for themselves. Given Tocqueville's stated intention, we cannot read his work as either scientific history or political polemic.

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