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.
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評分这本《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...
評分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...
評分《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...
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