TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America
Tuesday 29 July 2025 is the 220th anniversary of the birth of Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), better known to posterity as Alexis de Tocqueville, who was born in Paris on this date in 1805
Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of the undisputed classic, Democracy in American, but despite the epic scope and scale of the book, there’s something unfinished and incomplete about it. His further writings build on the themes of Democracy in America, but they literally remain unfinished, as he didn’t live to complete his work on the French Revolution.
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