Fyodor Dostoevsky: Tocqueville’s Democratic Poet

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Brief Overview

Tocqueville's democratic poetry finds expression in Dostoevsky's The Possessed which demonstrates the democrat's susceptibility to ideological possession, and magnifies T.s concern that democracies cannot take as their object the health of the soul.

Author

• Eric Schmidt, Kentucky Wesleyan College