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.
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.
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《旧制度与大革命》这本书,根据托克维尔在前言的叙述,本来应分为两个部分——“旧制度”与“大革命”,但是作为第二部分的“大革命”尚未完成,托克维尔就去世了。因此,只出版了作为第一分部分的《旧制度与大革命》,其重在回答“法国为什么会...
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...
评分看了一篇文章关于王岐山为什么推荐这本书,似乎讲的是要深化改革,以防止革命。还要打破既得利益者的格局。 如果说仅仅看到这些的话,那我只能呵呵了。 要从这本书看出可以借鉴的东西,要从两个方面来看,一个是转型的过程,一是崩溃的原因。 法国大革...
"B.S. History -- Bullshit, beautiful still."
评分Tocqueville在1856年就告訴你追求所謂universal equality=servitude for all以及equality和liberty就像opportunity cost一樣魚和熊掌不可能完全兼得,而民主社會應該是imply了要保證liberty的。革命不代表就一定會帶來民主/平等/自由;理想和現實,啓蒙運動和真正的政治革命是有差距的。他對於法國大革命的分析也非常獨到有趣,邏輯很強大,需要慢慢揣摩。
评分"B.S. History -- Bullshit, beautiful still."
评分当局者迷,旁观者清用来形容托克维尔的两部著作是太合适不过了。
评分mind blown...
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