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Perennial Classics, New Yorkĭe Tocqueville A (2008) Ancien regime and the revolution (trans: Bevan G). And while he was repulsed by the brutality of French colonial tactics against the Berbers and Arabs, he ultimately condoned them as necessary for France to secure its place among Europe’s imperial powers (Pitts 2005: 204–5).ĭe Tocqueville A (1969) Democracy in America (trans: Lawrence G). In his capacity as a Parliamentarian, he even travelled to Algeria to oversee French colonization efforts. Finally, Tocqueville found himself divided between his detestation of violent tyranny and his support for French colonization as a project of national salvation. Although he savored the tranquility of scholarship and writing, he also threw himself into politics, serving as deputy under the July Monarchy, vice president of the Assemblée Nationale after the revolution of 1848, and even briefly as France’s minister of foreign affairs. Tocqueville was also torn over the conflicting demands of intellectual and political life. He was awestruck by the equality found in democratic societies, but he also prized freedom and was fearful that democracy would enable new forms of despotism. He was an aristocrat by both birth and temperament, but he never lived in an aristocratic society, and his crowning achievement was to compose the most celebrated study of democracy ever written. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a thinker pulled between several worlds.
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