Michel Houellebecq discusses Tocqueville first – pointing out that Tocqueville predated Nietzsche’s concept of ‘the last man’ which criticized mankind’s decision to purchase safety and mediocrity for the price of their passion and their soul…..  [from here]
But what also caught my eye? Â Further reading in the adventures of dead philosophers on democracy:
I. The works of Moisey Ostrogorski. Highly recommended.
II. Thomas Carlyle’s opinion about democracy, specially in the first of his Latter-Day Pamphlets.
III. Edwin Godkin’s two books: Problems of Modern Democracy, and Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy.
IV. Sir Thomas Erskine May’s Democracy in Europe – Volume One, and Volume Two.
V. Lord Acton’s review of this book: Sir Erskine May’s Democracy in Europe.
VI. And finally, if you don’t mind spending a few dollars, Prof°. Kenneth Minogue recent work: The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life.
Amazing stuff, enjoy!