Prophecy of the Age of Masses
摘要
Alexis de Tocqueville’s critical observation of democracy has earned him the reputation of an “analyst” (Mayer 1972) or even “prophet” (Pisa 1986) of the age of masses, and according to Wilhelm Dilthey, Tocqueville is “among all analysts of the political world the greatest since Aristotle and Machiavelli” (cited after DA, 876).