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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jaume, Lucien

Titel

Tocqueville’s Relation to Jansenism

Ist Teil von

• Tocqueville, 2013, p.159-192

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For generations now, scholars have been arguing that Tocqueville had deep sympathy for Pascal and perhaps for Jansenism. It should be noted, however, that when he wrote to Kergorlay that he lived “a little every day” with Pascal, Rousseau, and Montesquieu—in a passage that has been cited a hundred times over—he was simply repeating, literally, advice offered to him by his confidant two years earlier, in 1834.¹ Still, the point is not to deny that Tocqueville had a personal interest in Pascal, even if it is impossible to say which edition he read.² It remains to be seen