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Hace 2 días · Alexis de Tocqueville and American Exceptionalism. It must be acknowledged that in few of the civilized nations of our time have the higher sciences made less progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, distinguished poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europeans, struck by this fact, have looked upon it as a ...
Hace 3 días · Fernando Yurman. 08 de mayo de 2024. Es inevitable, en tiempos turbulentos, rememorar la pesimista visión de Alexis de Tocqueville en 1835 sobre la naciente democracia norteamericana. Las pasiones derrotadas de la revolución francesa parecían tonificarse con nuevas multitudes, pero también alarmaban con sus riesgos abismales.
Hace 1 día · En la década de 1830, Alexis de Tocqueville, en “La democracia en América”, vislumbró las corrientes antiliberales que ya enredaban la política del país. Si bien se maravillaba de la “igualdad de condiciones”, la fluidez de la vida social y la fortaleza de las instituciones republicanas, también se preocupaba por la “omnipotencia de la mayoría”.
Hace 1 día · I think probably first and foremost, Edmund Burke, but Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about America, he didn't specifically mention the Boy Scouts. What he talked about was the middle. And what he meant there was that a distinctive of America and of course, at the time he's writing in what many people would call its adolescent era, was that in between the state and the citizen, there was a lot of ...
Hace 1 día · French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville said democracy would not only weaken the public spirit essential for social order, but also shorten the span of time spent thinking about things. In other words, democracy would tend to produce self-centered people who would prioritize things that were vital “for me now.”
Hace 6 horas · No one captured that exceptionalism about the American experience better than French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville when he observed over 200 years ago our remarkable tendency to organize around ...
Hace 3 días · No one captured that exceptionalism about the American experience better than French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville when he observed over 200 years ago our remarkable tendency to organize around a pursuit of shared goals. In his book "Democracy in America," Tocqueville wrote, "Americans of all ages constantly unite.
