Abstract

The publication of Tocqueville's Écrits et discours politiques in 1962 shed new light on his entire oeuvre and also raised new questions. Because his support for France's colonial policy has often been ignored or downplayed, this article reconstructs Tocqueville's intellectual and political stands with regard to Algeria. Using Edward Saïd's now classic analysis of orientalism, it proposes a new interpretation of the democratic thinker as an undeniable if atypical orientalist.

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