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.
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...
评分相当精彩。读完全书后的感觉正如同作者所说:历史是一个画廊,里面模仿多,原创少。 此书的分析甚至可以颠履我们对法国大革命的起因。原来大革命并不完全是因为封建压迫过重,反而是放松的缘故。而大革命后的所有制度都不过是过去制度的改头换面,特别是中央集权。当看到书中引...
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...
评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...
评分原标题: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...
读多少遍也会觉得好看的一本书。托克维尔和英译文笔都十分流畅,托对民主制度的敏锐观察更是振聋发聩。托一方面肯定法革中人民推翻封建制度的成就,一方面提出高涨的民间热情与抽象的哲学概念无法与有益于维护自由的旧制度兼容,于是旧社会的废墟上生出了更为集权的新政府,自由成为了革命的牺牲品。
评分Tocqueville在1856年就告訴你追求所謂universal equality=servitude for all以及equality和liberty就像opportunity cost一樣魚和熊掌不可能完全兼得,而民主社會應該是imply了要保證liberty的。革命不代表就一定會帶來民主/平等/自由;理想和現實,啓蒙運動和真正的政治革命是有差距的。他對於法國大革命的分析也非常獨到有趣,邏輯很強大,需要慢慢揣摩。
评分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."
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