The new Prometheus. Some reflections on the charismatic leadership in the context of modern democracies

The present work try to trace in the thought of the intellectuals more important of the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX, the democracy's conception, and particularly how they understood the relation between the leader and mass, that just begging with the expansion of the suffrage. We put our eyes specially in the charismatic leader, figure absent in the liberal tradition and his conception of autonomous subject, that raise from the authenticity's ideal of the romanticism. With these tools we analyze the new conception of time inside the political theory that present the democracy with charismatic leader, the relation between this leader and the bureaucracy, and narrow limits that separate this democracy the authority's experience. We return to Weber to underline the hard but always necessary balance between charisma and rationality that have to lead the modern democracy.