Long 19th c. · 1805–1859
Who influenced Alexis de Tocqueville?
Influences and legacy
Read democracy's soul in America — liberty, equality, and the soft tyranny of conformity.
Alexis de Tocqueville was influenced by Montesquieu, and went on to influence John Stuart Mill. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Alexis de Tocqueville?
Alexis de Tocqueville travelled in the United States and wrote Democracy in America (1835, 1840), now considered an early work of sociology and political science. After Louis Napoléon's coup of 1851 ended his political career, he wrote The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), arguing that the Revolution continued the centralisation of the French state begun under Louis XIV.
He sat in parliament under the July Monarchy, when he was its leading expert on Algeria, and in the Second Republic. A classical liberal, he favoured parliamentary government and distrusted the extremes of majority rule, and readers from left and right have claimed him ever since.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Alexis de Tocqueville?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Montesquieu 1689–1755
Who did Alexis de Tocqueville influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Alexis de Tocqueville.
- John Stuart Mill 1806–1873
The line of teachers behind Alexis de Tocqueville
The longest documented line of influence ending at Alexis de Tocqueville runs 17 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Alexis de Tocqueville
Indirect influences
- Through Montesquieu: Ibn Khaldun, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Locke
The second generation
- Through John Stuart Mill: Henry Sidgwick, Bertrand Russell, John Rawls
Contemporaries of Alexis de Tocqueville
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Alexis de Tocqueville, with no direct line between them.
- Ludwig Feuerbach 1804–1872
- Max Stirner 1806–1856
- Aleksey Khomyakov 1804–1860
- Ivan Kireyevsky 1806–1856
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882
- Harriet Taylor Mill 1807–1858
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809–1865
Alexis de Tocqueville by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 60
- Thinkers downstream
- 24
- Wikipedia languages
- 77 — #19 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Alexis de Tocqueville
- Who influenced Alexis de Tocqueville?
- Montesquieu.
- Who did Alexis de Tocqueville influence?
- John Stuart Mill.
- When did Alexis de Tocqueville live?
- 1805–1859. The map files Alexis de Tocqueville under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Alexis de Tocqueville card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Alexis de Tocqueville in 77 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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