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Pierre Campion, « Tocqueville écrivain. Le style dans De la Démocratie en Amérique », Littérature, ID : 10.3406/litt.2004.1865
Tocqueville the Writer: Style in "Of Democracy" in America Tocqueville's project is properly literary: acknowledging the doxa of equality developing in the modern world, against his own instincts. The resulting style is one of paradox, images and formulae, which adheres to its subject as it thinks it through.