Századok – 2014
TANULMÁNYOK - Fenyő István: Csillagok együttállása. Tocqueville, J. S. Mill és a magyar centralisták III/567
A SYNOD OF STARS TOCQUEVILLE, J. S. MILL AND THE HUNGARIAN CENTRALISTS TOCQUEVILLE, J. S. MILL ÉS A MAGYAR CENTRALISTÁK 599 by Fenyő István (Abstract) Hungarian research on Tocqeville has always made reference to the study which the great thinker published as the Political and Social Condition of France, yet it has received no detailed discussion, and has not even been translated into Hungarian. This lacuna is at least partly filled in the framework of the present study. In a similar way, the influence of Mill has been assessed in the Hungarian research, but without regard to his early essays and his editorial activities (Westminster Review). Tocqueville and J. s. Mill, these two pillars of political philosophy in the 19th century, acquainted with each other in the last days of May 1835 at London, and on this occasion Mill asked for an article from his French colleague. The writing was subsequently published in the Westminster Review on 1 April 1836. The Hungarian centralists, József Eötvös, László Szalay and Ágoston Trefort stayed in London at the time when the paper by Tocqueville was published in English; they thus probably read it at the very place it appeared, and put it to use when they compiled their own political program.
