L’"Individu" et la "Démocratie" au XIXe siècle roumain

Abstract

Representing democracy and the development of the political persona in the XIXth century Romanian political discourse means, first of all, to focus the analysis on the implications the concept of democracy could provide. In the first half of the XIXth century, the concept of Romanian democracy and its place within political discourse are conditioned by philosophical and historiographical discontinuities between the periods, the intellectual sources, as well as the political and institutional framework of that time. Within that context, democracy should be regarded as a fundamental concept to political and institutional development in the beginning of the XIXth century. The present article goes on this path, analyzing some examples of political discourse during the period of establishment of the fundamental democratic institutions in the Romanian modernity.