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    The crime of aristocracy – Count Alexis de Tocqueville on american slavery
    (Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM, 2010) Kaczor, Wojciech
    "During his journey to the United States in 1831, the French count Alexis de Tocqueville encountered in Baltimore a slave so terrorized by his master that he had gone out of his mind and spent his days in lunacy, howling like a dog1. Near the end of the journey, Tocqueville wrote to his father"(...)
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    Tocqueville and pantheism
    (Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM, 2009) Delsol, Chantal
    "The very short chapter on pantheism in De la Démocratie en Amérique [On democracy in America] is probably also one of the most profound, in the sense that it suggests one of the very mysterious aspects of the soul of democracies. Or maybe, in this prophetic manner which is the author’s own secret, one aspect of the future democracies’ soul. As we know it, Tocqueville does not content himself with a magnificent description of the spirit of democracy as he sees it with his own eyes, but he is suggesting its developments and avatars, including those, which were not yet visible in his time. In many cases, almost two centuries later, we do see that he has predicted, like a Pythia, situations that were rather unlikely in his contemporary times. We could quote two cases of such predictions, which still amaze us today: the extraordinary description of the ostracism striking those, who we refer today as to “politically incorrect” and chapter VI of the Première Partie, entitled: “Ce qui fait pencher l’esprit des peuples démocratiques vers le panthéisme” [“What makes the spirit of democratic peoples incline towards pantheism”]. Naturally, the first symptoms of what he is announcing can already bee felt in the very core of societies living before his eyes. "(...)
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    What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today
    (Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM, 2004) Mansfield, Harvey C.; Winthrop, Delba
    "Russell Baker once said that in our time people cite Tocqueville without reading him even more than they do the Bibie and Shakespeare. Every American president sińce Eisenhower has ąuoted him, no doubt without reading him, and some of our professors, to say nothing of other citizens, have picked up their habit of fishing for what they like, and throwing back the rest, in Tocqueville’s great work Democracy in America."(...)