De la démocratie en Amérique

“I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there an image of democracy itself.” Tocqueville’s nineteenth-century masterpiece is at once an exceptional work of political analysis and a founding classic of sociology. Equality of conditions, individualism, democratic despotism, the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion: the concepts he forged still map the contours of any philosophy of modern democracy.