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Tocqueville's Paradoxical Moderation

Published:2005 Issue:4 Volume:67 Page:599-630
ISSN:0034-6705
Container-title:The Review of Politics
language:en
Short-container-title:Rev Pol

Author:

Craiutu Aurelian

Abstract

This essay examines in detail Tocqueville's paradoxical moderation by focusing on his rich correspondence and notes forDemocracy in America. As Tocqueville's critique of the politics of the July Monarchy shows, he was a political moderate and an immoderate mind, and this uncommon combination explains the ambiguities and contradictions in his view of democracy. After exploring Tocqueville's views on moderating democracy, the essay examines the main elements of his new science of politics at the heart of which lies the idea of a wise balancing of various social elements, principles, and ideas. The final section comments on Tocqueville's elusive moderation and his search for greatness in modern politics.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science

Reference116 articles.

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2. Wolin , Tocqueville Between Two Worlds, p. 294.

3. Schleifer , The Making of Democracy in America, p. 234;

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