James SCHLEIFER

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Gill Library at the College of New Rochelle, NY

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Tocqueville aux États-Unis : la continuité de la pensée des Lumières ? Présentation de Françoise Mélonio - Paris IV

TOCQUEVILLE AND AMERICA : LESSONS FROM THE NEW WORLD REPUBLIC

Introduction

This paper is an attempt to explore once again the significance of the American experience for Tocqueville’s thinking and writing, in general, and for his Democracy in America, in particular. For this essay I am not returning in any special way to the journey itself ; I am trying neither to retrace George Pierson’s classic work nor to repeat my own earlier effort to recreate Tocqueville’s “second journey” to America, the actual...

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