Alexis de Tocqueville · Politics
Tocqueville’s last great work turned from America to the French Revolution, and to the deepest tension in his thought: that a people may passionately love <em>equality</em> while caring little for <em>liberty</em> - and that the Revolution, far from destroying the centralised state, completed it.
You learned Tocqueville’s analysis of the French Revolution in The Old Regime and the Revolution . Explain in your own words two of his great paradoxes: that the Revolution continued the monarchy’s centralisation, and that a people can love equality more than liberty.
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