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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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  • RESUMEN: En este artículo trabajo las paradojas vinculadas al surgimiento de la figura del individualismo dentro de las democracias liberales

  • Qué idea de democracia está efectivamente funcionando como horizonte de sentido para pensar nuestra actualidad y cuáles son los problemas que atañen a tal modo de cristalización

  • Por eso aquí hemos intentado hacer resonar una y otra vez a Tocqueville, ir apropiándonos de su voz para que de ese murmullo surgiese otra vía desde la cual pensar el acontecimiento de la democracia y, en última instancia, a nosotros mismos como parte de ese proceso que aún hoy nos resulta un enigma

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RESUMEN: En este artículo trabajo las paradojas vinculadas al surgimiento de la figura del individualismo dentro de las democracias liberales. Oscilante con ARBOR Vol 187 750 julio-agosto [2011] 733-739 ISSN: 0210-1963 respecto a este acontecimiento, en los últimos capítulos de La Democracia en América nos arroja a una paradoja vinculada con la emergencia de la figura del individuo moderno, a saber: a la vez que separa a los hombres entre sí los vuelve una masa indiferenciada y uniforme.

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