Tocqueville, Democratic Poetry, and the Religion of Humanity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12228345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Üner Daglier (0000-0001-6492-8383, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utilitas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-8208 • E-ISSN: 1741-6183 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0953820821000236 |
| OpenAlex | W3181822232 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The Religion of Humanity has typically been associated with Auguste Comte's positivism. Within liberal philosophical debate, John Stuart Mill's measured advocacy for it has received some attention, especially given his otherwise well-known emphasis on the tension between religion and liberty. Yet Alexis de Tocqueville's perceptive awareness of the Religion of Humanity as an evolving phenomenon, expressed through his discussion of democratic poetry, remained largely unnoticed. Of course, Tocqueville's essential religio-political task was to promote a modified version of Christianity and buttress the standing of religious morality as an outside barrier against human action motivated by democratic materialism, notwithstanding the secular doctrine of self-interest well understood. Indeed, despite the neutral tone of Tocqueville's discussion of democratic poetry, elsewhere his critique of democratic pantheism, writers and orators, theatre, and historians warned against excessive veneration of humanity, which amounted to a sublimation of the dogma of the sovereignty of the people
Democracy · Doctrine · Epistemology · Humanity · Morality · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Sovereignty · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religious studies
A religious history of the American people
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
Collected Works of John Stuart Mill; Volume X — Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society
Political Messianism
Civil and uncivil religions
The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
The Fragility of Freedom
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution
The Religious Beliefs of Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion
Tocqueville's Puritans
Tocqueville on Civil Religion and Liberal Democracy
Tocqueville on Religious Truth & Political Necessity
Tocqueville's Civil Religion
Tocqueville on Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Democratic Soul
Not by Preaching
John Stuart Mill’s “Religion of Humanity” Revisited
The Immovable Foundations of the Infinite and Immortal
John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |