Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 to a noble French family that had survived the French Revolution. His father gained some political power under the reign of the Bourbons, and after the July Revolution of 1830, the family was exiled along with the king. Tocqueville, then twenty-five years old, stayed in France, swearing allegiance to the new government. Shortly thereafter he and a friend, Gustave de Beaumont, sought and received a government assignment to study the prison system of the United States. They arrived in America in 1831. After extensive travels across the young nation, Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America (published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840). The publication of the first volume made Tocqueville a well-known figure, but he led a quiet life, accepting modest governmental posts, traveling around Europe, and marrying an Englishwoman. In 1848, Tocqueville once again rose to political prominence after a prescient speech that foretold of revolution. After serving through the massive upheavals and overthrows of government, Tocqueville retired from political life in 1849. Always weak in health, his lung disease grew progressively worse from that period on. Moving south several times on doctor’s recommendations, Tocqueville succumbed to death in 1859, in Cannes.
A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville’s influential look at the origins of modern France
In this penetrating study, Alexis de Tocqueville considers the French Revolution in the context of France’s history. de Tocqueville worried that although the revolutionary spirit was still alive and well, liberty was no longer its primary objective. Just as the first Republic had fallen to Napoleon and the second had succumbed to his nephew Napoleon III, he feared that all future revolutions might experience the same fate, forever imperiling the development of democracy in France.
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...
评分这本《旧制度与大革命》是本老书,只不过是最新出版的。旧制度与大革命》是法国历史学家托克维尔的著作,探讨的是法国大革命,原有的封建制度由于腐败和不得人心而崩溃,但社会动荡却并未带来革命党预期的结果,无论是统治者还是民众,最后都被相互间的怒火所吞噬。原著出版于1...
评分http://beeplin.blog.163.com/blog/static/172544160201262192954385/ 翻出了自己八年前写的《旧制度与大革命》书评~ 那时候正是研三,作为一个刚刚开始对政治经济历史之类玩意儿感兴趣的工科生,上渠敬东老师的理论课,写了这么一个四不像的期中论文。八年过去了,看到一...
评分去年底,新任中纪委书记王岐山推荐了法国人托克维尔的《旧制度与大革命》一书,一时洛阳纸贵,书店、网上都脱销。我也趁这个机会重新看了一遍这本书。 在此前,托克维尔更加被推崇的是他的另一本代表作《论美国的民主》。该书是对美国立国初期的政治、社会、文化等方方面面的...
评分文/端宏斌 故事要从一则微博说起,著名经济学家华生在几个月前发了一条微博: “去海里见老领导,被推荐读本书,托克维尔的《旧制度与大革命》。他认为中国这样在世界上举足轻重的大国,从历史上看也好,今天的外部环境也好,现代化转型不会那么顺利。中国人自己的代...
和伯克的《革命反思》对着读,两人同所谓保守,对革命的批判出发点其实截然对立
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评分“不含偏见,饱含深情”,托克维尔果然说到做到。文风洗炼,完全不同于有些唠唠叨叨、味同嚼蜡的文字。第三编第一章,论及文人的浪漫情怀对于法国大革命的推动,堪称经典。
评分和伯克的《革命反思》对着读,两人同所谓保守,对革命的批判出发点其实截然对立
评分“不含偏见,饱含深情”,托克维尔果然说到做到。文风洗炼,完全不同于有些唠唠叨叨、味同嚼蜡的文字。第三编第一章,论及文人的浪漫情怀对于法国大革命的推动,堪称经典。
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