The aim in the following pages is to consider Tocqueville’s thought less for its own sake than for its contemporary significance. What does democracy mean today, what has it become, and what can Tocqueville’s way of thinking about it tell us about its future? His great study of America remains an incomparably vibrant source for understanding our political universe, one that appears astonishingly present each time one revisits it.
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Marcel Gauchet (2016) studied this question.