Alan S. Kahan is an associate professor in the history department at Florida International University and the author of Aristocratic Liberalism and Liberalism in Nineteeth-Century Europe.
发表于2024-11-04
The Old Regime and the French Revolution 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
你说好的希望在哪里 ——《旧制度与大革命》书评 华中师范大学 陈芝 据说托克维尔是世界上第一个指出法国大革命的诞生并不是因为生活毫无希望,而是有希望,希望却不能快速得到满足的人。生...
评分 评分因为黑格尔在某个地方说过,一切伟大的世界历史事变和人物,可以说都出现两次。马克思替他补充了一点:第一次是作为伟大的悲剧出现,第二次是作为卑劣的笑剧出现。 正文 请不要少于140字 所以说,海里的叔叔伯伯们担心自己会被送上断头台,其实他们只会因为被农民老爷爷养的...
评分相当精彩。读完全书后的感觉正如同作者所说:历史是一个画廊,里面模仿多,原创少。 此书的分析甚至可以颠履我们对法国大革命的起因。原来大革命并不完全是因为封建压迫过重,反而是放松的缘故。而大革命后的所有制度都不过是过去制度的改头换面,特别是中央集权。当看到书中引...
评分师兄推荐《旧制度与大革命》这本小书,开学这两周断断续续翻了一遍。热读热议的浮夸着的喧哗并不能给作品带来经典的光环,历史与现实轮回般的相似也不能说明它的伟大,只是当那以往世代幽微的烛火或多或少照亮了今日眼前的混沌时,折服而击节赞叹便很自然了。 推荐这本书时,人...
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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of Democracy in America, the most-quoted book written about the United States. The Old Regime and the Revolution is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Writing in 1851, Tocqueville showed the continuity of French political behavior and social attitudes before and after the Revolution. He discussed the dangers to political freedom posed by tendencies towards government centralization and persistent class hostility that endured from the old regime to the Revolution and beyond.
Alan Kahan's new translation finally provides a faithful and readable rendering in English of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, surpassing existing English editions of the work which are now decades old. The first translation to be based on the forthcoming French critical edition, it includes notes and variants, which reveal Tocqueville's sources as well as new material from his drafts and revisions. The reader will also find a new introduction and other discussions by France's most eminent scholars on Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet.
A major scholarly event, this handsomely produced book will be the definitive English edition of one of the great books in modern intellectual history.
François Furet (1992-1997) was the leading French historian of the Revolution and, according to the New York Times, "one of the most influential French thinkers of the post-war era." Françoise Mélonio is the editor of Gallimard's critical edition of Tocqueville's complete works.
"Françoise Furet . . . challenged the popular Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution and reshaped French thinking about subsequent events. His lifelong fascination with the French Revolution and his many books on it . . . earned him a special place among historians."-New York Times, 16 July 1997
First published in 1856, Tocqueville's examination of the French Revolution is perhaps a most important contribution to our understaning of this keystone of modern history.
写的不错既有深度也具有可读性
评分mind blown...
评分先读了三遍。一个国家如何进行民主转型?
评分与《论美国的民主》不同,这本书有些简略。一方面固然由于托去世得早没来得及按原计划完成整体创作,另一方面可能也因为写作旨向不同。面对陌生的美国和亲切的民主概念成为现实,托以旁观者身份满怀激情地创制巨作;而对法国,他主要想搞明白为什么来自这片土壤的民主概念最终没有在这里发生。托的野心在于澄清一个事实,即大革命的爆发根本不像后来人想象和描述得那样高尚和意义重大,它不是蓄谋已久的政治变革,不过是一系列看似不相关的琐碎事件相互作用的总和。但这些事件不是偶然的,它们是历史的产物,是在当时情景下合情合理发生的结果。托又想告诉人们,不要以为大革命后出现的东西都是新的,王权,民主,贵族,资产阶级,权力集中,人民主权,这些概念或事实一直活跃于大革命前。托更想告诉人们些关于民主、平等和自由的东西,但这里写不下了。
评分读多少遍也会觉得好看的一本书。托克维尔和英译文笔都十分流畅,托对民主制度的敏锐观察更是振聋发聩。托一方面肯定法革中人民推翻封建制度的成就,一方面提出高涨的民间热情与抽象的哲学概念无法与有益于维护自由的旧制度兼容,于是旧社会的废墟上生出了更为集权的新政府,自由成为了革命的牺牲品。
The Old Regime and the French Revolution 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书