The modern individual: between the industrious animal and the political freedom
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2011.750n4008Keywords:
Democracy, freedom, political freedom, individual freedom, liberalism, individualAbstract
In this article I deal with the paradoxes that aroused after the emergence of individualism in liberal democracies. In order to articulate these paradoxes, I’ll take the reflections Tocqueville made in Democracy in America about this subject so as to reflect on how the connections between individual and democracy were made. Firstly, I examine the inconveniences of the discourse of deliberate democracy because I want to break up the existing link between the concept of liberalism and the concept of democracy. On one side, I show the impossibility to think democracy from an original model. I examine the impossibility to fix a necessary link between democracy and liberalism. I intend to describe the assumption that supports this whole theory: considering the individual as the axis around whom the discourse is built up.. Finally, I consider the importance of thinking a contingent link between democracy and liberalism to take up again the concept of political freedom as a necessary matter for activating the revolutionary moment of the democratic discourse.
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