Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jaume, Lucien

Titel

Counterrevolutionary Traditionalism: A MUFFLED POLEMIC

Ist Teil von

• Tocqueville, 2013, p.106-114

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the counterrevolutionary school, it remained an article of faith from the time of the Directory to the end of the nineteenth century that individualism is destructive of the social bond, that it is impossible to create a society from individual atoms. The Code Civil chopped society into little pieces, creating social fragmentation.¹ On this last point, Tocqueville was in total agreement: the “law of inheritance,” he said, should be placed “at the head of all political institutions” in both ancient and modern treatises on politics.² It explained everything about the democratic structure: in France, the Code Civil was a