Tocqueville (Mansfield)
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Tocqueville (Mansfield)
| Full title | Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction |
|---|---|
| Author | Harvey C. Mansfield |
| Published | 2010 |
| Pages | 144 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A short interpretive guide to Tocqueville by his principal modern translator, covering both volumes of Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. Mansfield reads him as a political scientist of a “new kind,” who took democracy as an irreversible social fact and asked what in it needed checking — above all the drift toward individualism and administrative centralisation. |
Tocqueville (Mansfield)
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), under The American Experiment, directly beneath Democracy in America as its companion. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Alexis de Tocqueville — the subject.
- Democracy in America — the primary text this introduces, also on Kyle’s list.
- Democracy — the concept at issue.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the list this came from.
What links here
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