The Storeys set the stage for their discussion of Tocqueville with a brilliant review of the intertwining thought of Montaigne, Pascal, and Rousseau, and particularly of their intertwining thought on restlessness. But they begin “Chapter 4. Tocqueville: Democracy and the Naked Soul” with a description of the premodern tradition and definition of happine…
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