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.
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.
《旧制度与大革命》读书笔记 同时下的一些解读相反,这本书大概并不是一本要“告别革命”的保守主义著作,在前言中,有这么一个铿锵有力的句子:“这是青春、热情、自豪、慷慨、真诚的时代,尽管它有各种错误,人们将千秋万代纪念它,而且在长时期内,它还将使所有想腐蚀或奴...
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...
评分 评分 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...
mind blown...
评分先读了三遍。一个国家如何进行民主转型?
评分"B.S. History -- Bullshit, beautiful still."
评分与《论美国的民主》不同,这本书有些简略。一方面固然由于托去世得早没来得及按原计划完成整体创作,另一方面可能也因为写作旨向不同。面对陌生的美国和亲切的民主概念成为现实,托以旁观者身份满怀激情地创制巨作;而对法国,他主要想搞明白为什么来自这片土壤的民主概念最终没有在这里发生。托的野心在于澄清一个事实,即大革命的爆发根本不像后来人想象和描述得那样高尚和意义重大,它不是蓄谋已久的政治变革,不过是一系列看似不相关的琐碎事件相互作用的总和。但这些事件不是偶然的,它们是历史的产物,是在当时情景下合情合理发生的结果。托又想告诉人们,不要以为大革命后出现的东西都是新的,王权,民主,贵族,资产阶级,权力集中,人民主权,这些概念或事实一直活跃于大革命前。托更想告诉人们些关于民主、平等和自由的东西,但这里写不下了。
评分写的不错既有深度也具有可读性
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