Democracy in America — Volume 2

In America, Alexis de Tocqueville finds a people who scarcely study philosophy—and yet, without knowing it, share a method: each person shuts himself up in his own breast and judges the world.

Writing in 1840, after observing the United States, Tocqueville turns from its political institutions to the democratic habits of mind taking hold across society. He traces how equality loosens the grip of inherited authority, custom and class, encouraging people to trust their own reason. But he is no simple champion or enemy of democracy: convinced its advance cannot be stopped, he writes frankly of both its promised freedoms and its dangers. As Americans learn to think for themselves, what might they cease to see—or believe?

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