Tocqueville and His America by Arthur Kaledin

Author:Arthur Kaledin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-300-11931-2
Publisher: Yale University Press

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INFLUENCES: VOICES IN THE TOWER

Though Tocqueville strove to isolate himself from the stresses and urban cleverness that shook his confidence and from blows to his unstable psyche, he relied nevertheless on a circle of intimate friends for encouragement, criticism, and help with the tangled intellectual problems he kept encountering. Through this time he also shared ideas with Royer-Collard and Mill, the two major liberal philosophers of his time. Their presence is strongly felt in Democracy in America. Tocqueville's correspondence with Mill was especially important to him, as it was to Mill as well, though in many ways they were quite different. They unquestionably influenced one another: their ideas were nourished by their intense, if brief, correspondence.

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