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PublisherDee Publisher, Ivan R.

ISBN-101566631688

ISBN-139781566631686

eBay Product ID (ePID)319203

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Book TitleMemoir on Pauperism

Number of Pages81 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicPhilanthropy & Charity, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Legal History

GenreLaw, Political Science, Social Science

AuthorAlexis de Tocqueville

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-011895

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"What are we to make of poverty in the age of democracy? Tocqueville answering that question with resounding force." --Joshua Mitchell, Harvard Divinity Bulletin "His genius shines through in Memoir on Pauperism ...fascinating and an informative read." -- The Review of Higher Education

Dewey Decimal362.50941

SynopsisImmediately after completing the first volume of Democracy in America , Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his Memoir on Pauperism . It was inspired by a visit to England two years earlier and was surely in his mind while he was writing Democracy . In the "Memoir," Tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of Europe in his time have the fewest paupers, while the most opulent country, England, has the most. He finds that England's public charity-possible because of its successful economy-has produced a pauper class: the unforeseen and unfortunate consequences of good intentions. By removing the necessity for work, public charity breeds other miseries. Here in book form for the first time, Tocqueville's "Memoir" still resonates in our postindustrial society. As Gertrude Himmelfarb notes in her introduction, "We can see the shadow of our chronically dependent 'underclass' in Tocqueville's description of the pauper class.... We can also, today more than ever, appreciate Tocqueville's criticism of public charity as a legal right-an 'entitlement,' as we now say." This cogent Memoir on Pauperism is a notable contribution to the idea of civil society., Immediately after completing the first volume of Democracy in America , Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his Memoir on Pauperism . It was inspired by a visit to England two years earlier and was surely in his mind while he was writing Democracy . In the "Memoir," Tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of Europe in his time have the fewest paupers, while the most opulent country, England, has the most. He finds that England's public charity-possible because of its successful economy-has produced a pauper class: the unforeseen and unfortunate consequences of good intentions. By removing the necessity for work, public charity breeds other miseries. Here in book form for the first time, Tocqueville's "Memoir" still resonates in our postindustrial society. As Gertrude Himmelfarb notes in her introduction, "We can see the shadow of our chronically dependent 'underclass' in Tocqueville's description of the pauper class.... We can also, today more than ever, appreciate Tocqueville's criticism of public charity as a legal right-an 'entitlement, ' as we now say." This cogent Memoir on Pauperism is a notable contribution to the idea of civil society., In this neglected memoir, written just after the first volume of Democracy in America, Tocqueville seeks to understand why the most impoverished countries of Europe in his time had the fewest paupers, while the most opulent nation--England--had the most.

LC Classification NumberHV245.T6313 1997