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.
原标题:托克维尔的历史忧思:从民主政治到“多数人暴政” 星岛环球网消息:中央政治局常委、中纪委书记王岐山近日在主持听取专家学者对反腐败工作的意见和建议的座谈会时,向与会专家推荐了法国历史学家、思想家托克维尔的《旧制度与大革命》一书。 《21世纪经济报...
评分在做外新史的读书笔记,放上来的这部分是末尾的一些笔记之外的想法,靠不靠谱尚不可知,欢迎讨论:) 如下: 在现有的诸多关于对托克维尔之法国大革命观的研究理论中,很少提及政体合法性与革命之间的关系。笔者认为可在此处做深入探究。 复旦大学政治学系教授陈明明曾...
评分一部书可以成为传世名著,其根本原因在于它其中蕴涵着一些同普遍人性相关的东西,可以超越时间地点,乃至民族文化。《旧制度与大革命》,恰恰就是这样一本书。 托克维尔是我非常尊敬的一位作家,他的另一本《论美国的民主》,也令我受益匪浅。贵族出身,又参与法国大革命和美国...
评分【按语:《旧制度与大革命》(1856)可以说是《论美国的民主》的更为阴郁的姊妹篇。从遥远的美国收回目光,托克维尔审视了法国自身的现状和历史。第二卷第11章的对比表明,托克维尔认为1850年代的法国仍处在中央集权的民主专制(democratic despotism)中,法国人还是没有学会...
'”不惜一切代价发财致富的欲望、对商业的嗜好、对物质利益和享受的追求,便成为最普通的感情这种感情轻而易举地散布在所有借机之中,甚至深入到一向与此无缘的阶级中,如果不加以阻止,它很快便会使整个民族萎靡堕落“' It's English ebook is available
评分名不虚传,霸气之作
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。
评分名不虚传,霸气之作
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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