Alexis de Tocqueville: General Works

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The possibility for success lies mostly in the subject, not only because it is necessary to discover one that interests the public, but especially because it is necessary to discover one that animates me and draws out of me all that I can give. . . . Basically, only affairs of our time interest the public and interest me. The greatness and singularity of the spectacle that the world of our time presents absorbs too much attention for anyone to be able to attach much value to those historical curiosities that suffice idle and erudite societies.  

Letter from Alexis de Tocqueville to Louis de Kergorlay (Dec. 15, 1850), in Selected Letters on Politics and Society 252, 253-54 (Roger Boesche ed., James Toupin & Roger Boesche trans., University of California Press 1985)

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Actualité de Tocqueville (1990 : Saint-Lo, France), L’actualite de Tocqueville: actes du Colloque de Saint-Lo, septembre 1990 (Caen: Centre de publications de l’Université de Caen, 1991)(Cahiers de philosophie politique et juridique; 19).

Adams, Herbert Baxter, Jared Sparks and Alexis de Tocqueville (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1898)(Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science; 16th ser.; 12).

Aguilar, Enrique, Alexis de Tocqueville: Una lectura introductoria (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamerica, 2008).

Alexis de Tocqueville. New World Encyclopedia.

Alexis de Tocqueville: seks samtaler med en klassiker (Staffen Zetterholm ed.; Copenhagen: Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne, 1988).

Alexis de Tocqueville, zur Politik in der Demokratie : Symposion zum 175. Geburtstag von Alexis de Tocqueville (Michael Hereth and Jutta Höffken, eds.; Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981).

Ampère, Jean-Jacques, Melanges d’histoire litteraire et de litterature (Paris: Michel Levy frères, 1867, repr. Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, 1970). Two volumes. Includes Alexis de Tocqueville in volume two.

Ampère, Jean-Jacques, Melanges d’histoire litteraire et de litterature (Paris: Michel Levy frères, 1867). Two volumes. Includes Alexis de Tocqueville in volume two.

Amiel, Anne, Le vocabulaire de Tocqueville (Paris: Ellipses, 2002)(Vocabulaires de).

The Anthem Companion To Alexis de Tocqueville (Daniel Gordon, ed., Anthem Press, 2019) (Anthem Companions to Sociology).

Aron, Raymond, Hauptstromungen des soziologischen Denkens (Köln: Kiepenheur-Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1971)(Studien-Bibliothek). Volume 1 contains material on Tocqueville. German translation of his Etapes de la pensée sociologique.

Aron, Raymond, Les Etapes de la pensee sociologique: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville, Durkheim, Pareto, Weber (Paris: Gallimard, 1991)(Collection Tel; 8).

Aron, Raymond, Les Etapes de la pensee sociologique: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville, Durkheim, Pareto, Weber (Paris: Gallimard, 1967, repr. 1992)(Collection Tel; 8). Includes sections on Tocqueville, Marx, Comte, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber and Pareto.

Aron, Raymond, Main currents in sociological thought (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965, repr. 1968)(Nature of Human Society Series). Volume one includes material on Tocqueville.

Aron, Raymond, Main currents in sociological thought (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998). Translation of Les grandes doctrines de sociologie historique.

Aron, Raymond, Tocqueville retrouvé, 1(1) The Tocqueville Review 8-23 (Fall 1979).

Audier, Serge, Tocqueville Retrouvé: Genèse et enjeux du renouveau tocquevillien français (Paris: Librarie Philosophique Vrin, 2004)(Contextes).

Battista, Anna Maria, Studi su Tocqueville (Florence: Centro editoriale toscano, 1989)(Politica e storia. Saggi e testi; 17).

Benoît, Jean-Louis, Comprendre Tocqueville (Paris: Armand Colin, 2004)(Cursus).

Benoît, Jean-Louis, Dictionnaire Tocqueville (Paris: Nuvis Editions, 2017).

Benoît, Jean-Louis, Tocqueville (Tempus, 2013).

Benoît, Jean-Louis, Tocqueville: Le théoricien de la démocratie at herodote.net: Le Média de l’histoire. 

A series of posts by Professor Benoît.

 

Berlin, Isaiah, The Thought of de Tocqueville, 50(169) History 199-206 (1965).

Boesche, Roger, Tocqueville’s Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Collection of the author’s writings from the past twenty-five years.

Brogan, Hugh, Tocqueville (London: Collins-Fontana, 1973).

Cambridge Companion To Tocqueville (Cheryl Welch ed.; Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Alexis de Tocqueville; livre du centenaire, 1859-1959 (Paris: CNRS, 1960).

Chinard, Gilbert, Alexis de Tocqueville, 9(2) French Review 101-110 (December 1935).

Clark, Manning, The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville (Carlton: Melbourne University Press in association with Manning Clark House, 2000).

Cosentino, Andrew J., and Françoise Mélonio, A Passion for liberty : Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy and revolution: an exhibition (Washington: The Library of Congress, 1989).

Curry, Richard, The Evolution of Tocqueville’s Thought, 8(4) Reviews in American History 487-495 (1980).

Dijn, Annelien de, French Political Thought From Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society? (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Dubois, Christian, Alexis de Tocqueville: Vie, Oeuvres, Concepts (Paris: Ellipses, 2004)(Collection les grands théoriciens: Sciences Economiques et Sociales). Contains introduction to Tocqueville’s life, major works and themes of his writings; timeline of his life and major events; glossary and short bibliography.

Epstein, Joseph, Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy’s Guide (NY: HarperCollins/Atlas, 2006).

Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Jill Locke and Eillen Hunt Botting, eds., Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008)(Re-Reading the Canon).

Fredericksen, Robert C., Alexis de Tocqueville.

Fugen, Hans N., Dichtung in der burgerlichen Gesellschaft: Sechs literatursoziologische Studien (Bonn: Bouvier, 1972). On Goethe, Emanuel Geibel, Paul Heyse, Stefan George, and Alexis de Tocqueville.

Furet, François, The Passions of Tocqueville, The New York Review of Books, June 27, 1985. Translated by David Bellos. Review of Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society (Roger Boesche, University of California Press, 1985).

Furankurin jefason madison hoka tokuviru (Shigeharu Matsumoto, ed.; Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 1970)(Sekai no meicho; 33).

Furansu shimin shakai no seiji shiso: arekushisu do tokuviru no seiji shiso o chushin ni (Takeshi Nakatani ed.; Kyoto: Horitsubunkasha, 1981).

Green, S. J. D., Tocqueville’s English Correspondence, The New Criterion, November 2016.

Gross-Grudzińska, Irena, Amerykański mateczni, in Alexis de Tocqueville: Piętnaście dni w pustkowiu 5-8 ( Warszawa: 2003) 5-8. Translation of article title: American lair.

Herb, Karlfriedrich, and Oliver Hidalgo, Alexis de Tocqueville (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2005).

Hereth, Michael, Alexis de Tocqueville: Die Gefährdung der Freiheit in der Democratie (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1979).

Hereth, Michael, Alexis de Tocqueville : threats to freedom in democracy (George Bogardus trans.; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986). Translation of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Hereth, Michael, Tocqueville zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius, 1991) (Zur Einführung; 69).

Kahan, Alan S., Alexis de Tocqueville (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2013) (Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers) (Annotated Edition).

by Alan S. Kahan (Author)

 

 

Kaledin, Arthur, Tocqueville and His America: A Darker Horizon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).

Kiesinger, Kurt-Georg, Über die Prognosen des Grafen Alexis de Tocqueville (Tübingen: C. F. Müller, 1964).

Keslassy, Eric, Tocqueville l’aristo-libéral, — Alternatives économiques – (January 2001). Further bibliographic information not currently available.

Kurczewska, Joanna,  Alexis de Tocqueville i wartości, 23 Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśli Społecznej 43-58 (1977). Translation of article title: Alexis de Tocqueville and values.

Legaz y Lacambra, Luis, Actualidad de Tocqueville; conferencia pronunciada en los cursos de formacion politica (Santiago de Compostela, 1951)(Publicaciones de los cursos de formacion politica Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Publicaciones de los cursos de formacion politica).

Liberty, equality, democracy (Eduardo Nolla ed.; New York : New York University Press, 1992).

Lukacs, John, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Bibliographical Essay (Online Library of Liberty).

Macfarlane, Alan, Alexis de Tocqueville and the Making of the Modern World.

Macfarlane, Alan, Alexis de Tocqueville and the Making of the Modern World (CreateSpace, 2018).

Macfarlane, Alan, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Life and Vision, in The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality 153-166 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).

Maguire, Matthew William, The Conversion of Enlightenment (Dissertation, Harvard University, 1999).

Maguire, Matthew William, The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal Through Rousseau to Tocqueville (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Based on the author’s dissertation.

Mancini, Matthew J., Alexis de Tocqueville (New York: Twayne, 1994)(Twayne’s World Authors Series; TWAS 848).

Mancini, Matthew J., Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Mansfield, Harvey Claflin, Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction (NY: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Marchi, Ludovico, La tirannide in nome del populo.

Matteucci, Nicola, Alla ricerca dell’ordine politico: da Machiavelli a Tocqueville (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1984).

Matteucci, Nicola, Alexis de Tocqueville: Tre esercizi di lettura (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1990).

Mayer, Jacob Peter, Alexis de Tocqueville: A Commentated Bibliography, 13 Revue Internationale de Philosophie 313-319 (1959).

Mukhergee, Subrata, and Sushila Ramaswamy, Alexis de Tocqueville: Great Western Political Thinker, 1805-1859 (Deep and Deep Publications, 2000).

 

Owens, Matthew, and Christopher J. Coyne, Classical Liberals on War and Imperialism: A Historical Survey (2022).

 

Passion for liberty, A: a Library of Congress exhibition, September 8 to October 28, 1989 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989). Exhibition catalog.

La pensée juridique d’Alexis de Tocqueville: Actes du colloque organisé le 13 novembre 2003 par le centre éthique et procédures de la faculté de droit de Douai, Université d’Artois (Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2005)(Droit et sciences économiques).

Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor (Raf Geenens and Annelien De Djin eds.; Palgrave MacMillan. 2007). Published in the US as Tocqueville Today?

Includes Tocqueville Today? Contexts, Interpretations and Usages; R.Geenens & A.De Dijn 
Liberalism, Democracy, and Empire: Tocqueville on Algeria; J.Pitts
Creating Concitoyens: Tocqueville on the Legacy of Slavery;
C. Welch
Reading Tocqueville: Diachrony, Synchrony, Ideology and New Perspectives;
J-L.Benoît
The Return of Tocqueville in Contemporary Political Thought: Individualism, Associationism, Republicanism; S.Audier
Democratic Threats and Threats to Democracy ; R. Ossewaarde
A Secular Reading of Alexis de Tocqueville; P.Cliteur
Democracy and Religion: Some Tocquevillian Perspectives; A.Antoine
Tocqueville, European Integration and Free Mœurs; L.Siedentop 
Tocqueville and European Federalism. A Reply to Larry Siedentop; W.Swenden
Bibliography

Reuben, Paul P., PAL: Early Nineteenth Century: Alexis de Tocqueville.

Rockford College Freshman Seminar Page: Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Roldán, Darío, Lecturas de Tocqueville (Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno, 2007).

Rollet, Jacques, Tocqueville (Paris: Montchréstien, 1998)(Clefs).

The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics (Oliver Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, Blackwell Publishing, 2002).

The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville (1979–). Semi-annual. in addition to general articles, publishes articles devoted to Tocqueville’s thought and life.

Tocqueville Today? (Raf Geenens and Annelien De Djin eds.; Palgrave MacMillan. 2007). Published in Europe as Reading Tocqueville.

Includes Tocqueville Today? Contexts, Interpretations and Usages; R.Geenens & A.De Dijn 
Liberalism, Democracy, and Empire: Tocqueville on Algeria; J.Pitts
Creating Concitoyens: Tocqueville on the Legacy of Slavery;
C. Welch
Reading Tocqueville: Diachrony, Synchrony, Ideology and New Perspectives;
J-L.Benoît
The Return of Tocqueville in Contemporary Political Thought: Individualism, Associationism, Republicanism; S.Audier
Democratic Threats and Threats to Democracy ; R. Ossewaarde
A Secular Reading of Alexis de Tocqueville; P.Cliteur
Democracy and Religion: Some Tocquevillian Perspectives; A.Antoine
Tocqueville, European Integration and Free Mœurs; L.Siedentop 
Tocqueville and European Federalism. A Reply to Larry Siedentop; W.Swenden
Bibliography

Tocqueville’s America 1982 (John William Ward et al.; Dallas, TX: LTV Corporate Affairs Department, 1982)(LTV Washington Seminar; 1982). get individual chapter titles.

Tocqueville’s defense of human liberty: current essays (NY: Garland Publishing, 1993)(Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 1492). Includes Michael P. Zuckert, On social state; Dennis Bathory, Moral ties and political freedom in Tocqueville’s new science of politics; Joseph Alulis, The promise of democracy and the problem of liberty; Peter Augustine Lawler, The restless mind; Eduardo Nolla, Democracy or the closed book; James F. Pontuso, Tocqueville on courage; Ralph C. Hancock, Tocqueville as critic of bloom; Bruce Frohnen, Materialism and self-deification: Bellah’s misuse of Tocqueville; Roger Boesche, Tocqueville and Arendt on the novelty of modern tyranny; Daniel J. Mahoney, Tocqueville and socialism; Delba Winthrop, Rights, interest, and honor; Catherine Zuckert, The role of religion in preserving American liberty– Tocqueville’s analysis 150 years later; Harold L. Levy, Lawyers’ spirit and democratic liberty: Tocqueville on lawyers, jurors, and the whole people; Sanford Kessler, The secularization debate: a Tocquevillian perspective; John Koritansky, Alexis de Tocqueville’s hopes for the education of democratic women; David Broyles, Tocqueville on the nature of federalism; Ken Masugi, Citizens and races: natural rights versus history; Darcy Wudel, Tocqueville on associations and association.

Tocqueville’s Europe (Falls Church, VA: Landmark Video, 19??). One videocassette. Speaker: James Sheehan. Part of a series of twenty lectures.

Tocqueville’s Political Science: Classic Essays (Peter Augustine Lawler ed.; NY: Garland Publishing Co., 1993)(Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 1491).

Tocquevillian Ideas: Contemporary European Perspectives (Zbigniew Rau and Marek Tracz-Tryniecki eds.; Lanham: University Press of America, 2014). Includes Tracz-Tryniecki, Marek and  Zbigniew Rau: Tocqueville and Europe: What Can We Learn from Him about the Past, the Present and the Future of the Old Continent?, Çağla, Cengiz: Tocqueville: A Thinker of Freedom, Atanassow, Ewa: Patriotism in Democracy: What We Learn from Tocqueville, Ossewaarde, Marinus R.R.: Tocqueville on Citizen Participation, Molnár, Attila K.: Tocqueville and the Democratic Churning, Hidalgo, Oliver: Religion, Virtue and the Ennobling of Democracy: Tocqueville’s Vision of Civic Society, Tracz-Tryniecki, Marek: Human Dignity versus Greatness: Tocqueville’s Dilemma, Stevenson, William R. Jr.: The American Melting Pot as Reductionist Kettle: Religious Liberty’s Worrisome Condition.

Tocqueville’s Voyages: The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time (Christine Dunn Henderson, ed.; Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2015).

Vossler, Otto, Tocqueville (Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1966).

Welch, Cheryl B., De Tocqueville (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Zunz, Olivier and Alan S. Kahan, Introduction, in The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2002) at 1-32.