With his monumental work "The Old Regime and the Revolution", Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) - best known for his classic "Democracy in America" - envisioned a multivolume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that would examine the implications of French history on the nature and development of democratic society. Volume 1, which covered the 18th-century background to the Revolution, was published to great acclaim in 1856. On the continuation of this project, he wrote: "When this Revolution has finished its work, [this volume] will show what that work really was, and what the new society which has come from that violent labour is, what the Revolution has taken away and what it has preserved from that old regime against which it was directed". Tocqueville died in the midst of this work. Here in Volume 2 -in clear, up-to-date English - is all that he had completed, including the chapters he started for a work on Napoleon, notes and analyses he made in the course of researching and writing the first volume, and his notes on his preparation for his continuation. Based on the new French edition of "The Old Regime", most of the translated texts have never before appeared in English, and many of those that have appeared were considerably altered. More than ever before, readers will be able to see how Tocqueville's account of the Revolution would have come out, had he lived to finish it. This volume completes the set and is useful reading for anyone interested in the French revolution or in Tocqueville's thought.
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【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...
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...
评分前言 这篇前言主要说的一个问题,即专制与个人道德,尤其是公共道德的问题。专制推动狭隘的个人主义,使人们彼此隔绝,专制与平等的结合,将使心灵与精神的普遍水准不断下降,而只有自由才能造就伟大的公民 第一编 第一章 大革命爆发之际,人们对它的评论歧异 大革命爆发之前...
Only time will tell whether, for better or worse, a new political project with the ability to enlist broad-based consent is in the making. In a country with high expectations and a stiffening resolve to resist abuse, managing the myriad social and political cleavages will be no simple task.
评分Only time will tell whether, for better or worse, a new political project with the ability to enlist broad-based consent is in the making. In a country with high expectations and a stiffening resolve to resist abuse, managing the myriad social and political cleavages will be no simple task.
评分英译质量被Jon Elster严厉批判,但两位顶级专家的序言很精彩(序言内容和已发表论文有不少重合)。
评分比较政治小试水!其中讲革命往往是在当压迫被放松,社会在向更自由的形态中转型的那个理论很有趣。
评分英译质量被Jon Elster严厉批判,但两位顶级专家的序言很精彩(序言内容和已发表论文有不少重合)。