Tocqueville and Mill on Liberty in a Democratic Age
ABSTRACT
This colloquium studied Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill. The readings encouraged comparison of these two thinkers’ understandings of liberalism, particularly the place of religion in modern politics, and the nature and extent of freedom within liberal democracy.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Tocqueville-Gobineau Correspondence, 1843. (Unpublished translation by Ralph Hancock).
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XII - The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part I. Edited by Francis E. Mineka. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/249 (accessed March 25, 2010).
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Edited by Elizabeth Rapaport. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1978.
Mill, John Stuart, “de Tocqueville on Democracy in America I (1835)” In The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII - Essays on Politics and Society Part I, edited by John M. Robson, 47-91. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.
Mill, John Stuart, “de Tocqueville on Democracy in America II, (1840)” In The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVIII - Essays on Politics and Society Part I, edited by John M. Robson, 153-204. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.
Mill, John Stuart, “Utility of Religion.” in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X - Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, edited by John M. Robson, 403-428. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2010.