Bourgeois Stew
Oliver Cussen: Alexis de Tocqueville, 16 November 2023
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
by Olivier Zunz.
Princeton, 443 pp., £22, November,978 0 691 25414 2 Show More
by Olivier Zunz.
Princeton, 443 pp., £22, November,
Travels with Tocqueville beyond America
by Jeremy Jennings.
Harvard, 544 pp., £34.95, March,978 0 674 27560 7 Show More
by Jeremy Jennings.
Harvard, 544 pp., £34.95, March,
“... charge Tocqueville always denied. But some of his more recent defenders, among them the historian Olivier Zunz and the political theorist Jeremy Jennings, present Tocqueville instead as a thinker who accepted the demise of feudalism, and who went further than most in making sense of the society emerging from the ruins. This was no easy task. Christopher ... ”
