具体描述
Those concerned with the practice of history as a discipline and as an intellectual activity will be intrigued by the view of history that Francois Furet offers in this collection of essays. After twenty-five years as a professional historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and in the ranks of the Annales school, Furet sets out to reexamine the methodological and intellectual cleavages that exist today among historians.
Furet views history as a field bounded at each end by two ideal types. One end is concerned with the history of periods and with the empiricism of "facts" rather than received ideas. At the other end is problem-oriented history, which substitutes for the supposed coherence of a "period" the analytical examination of a question. Furet's own work leans toward the second, more conceptually oriented kind of historiography. The essays in this volume, most of them never before published in English, illustrate the breadth of his approach. Furet's discussion ranges through Tocqueville's conceptual system to present-day America, from the origins of history in France to the Jewish experience in the late twentieth century. Among Furet's recurrent themes is the contention that the historian constructs the object or field of his research rather than receiving it from the past.
作者简介
Furet, an authority on the French Revolution and the eighteenth century, is president of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris
目录信息
Part One: History Today
1—French Intellectuals: From Marxism to Structuralism.(27)
2—Quantitative History.(40)
3—From Narrative History to Problem-oriented History. (54)
4—History and Ethnology
Part Two: History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century European Culture
5—The Birth of History in France.(77)
6—Book Licensing and Book Production in the Kingdom of France in the Eighteenth Century. (99)
7—Two Historical Legitimations of Eighteenth-Century French Society: Mably and Boulainvilliers.(125）
8—Civilization and Barbarism in Gibbon's History.(140)
Part Three: America and the Idea of Democracy
9—From Savage man to Historical Man: The American Experience in Eighteenth-Century Frenc Culture.(153)
10—The Conceptual system of Democracy in America.(167)
11—Today' America: A Metamorphosis of the Idea of Equality.(197)
Part Four: Aspects of Modern Jewish History
To the reader
12—Jews and French Democracy:Some Recent Books.(211)
13—Gershom Scholem and Jewish History.(225)
14—Israel and the French Left: The Misunderstanding.(230).
15—Israel,Zionism, and the Diaspora.(234)
Notes—（243）
Indes—（253）
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chapter 10——The Conceptual System of Democracy in America. pp167-196 First published as a preface to Alexis de Tocqueville, De la democratie en Amerique,1981 毕竟是DA的导论，对于整部书有一个梗概的介绍。功力深厚，法国人写的托克维尔还是跟美国人的路数不一样。更显得有历史感（毕竟傅勒是历史权威）也更多了其他学科的视角。篇章最后简要比较了马克思和托克维尔，虽然不多，但依然深刻。具体可以参见傅勒写马克思的作品。（修正史学很明显能从傅勒的论述中感觉出来）
chapter 10——The Conceptual System of Democracy in America. pp167-196 First published as a preface to Alexis de Tocqueville, De la democratie en Amerique,1981 毕竟是DA的导论，对于整部书有一个梗概的介绍。功力深厚，法国人写的托克维尔还是跟美国人的路数不一样。更显得有历史感（毕竟傅勒是历史权威）也更多了其他学科的视角。篇章最后简要比较了马克思和托克维尔，虽然不多，但依然深刻。具体可以参见傅勒写马克思的作品。（修正史学很明显能从傅勒的论述中感觉出来）
chapter 10——The Conceptual System of Democracy in America. pp167-196 First published as a preface to Alexis de Tocqueville, De la democratie en Amerique,1981 毕竟是DA的导论，对于整部书有一个梗概的介绍。功力深厚，法国人写的托克维尔还是跟美国人的路数不一样。更显得有历史感（毕竟傅勒是历史权威）也更多了其他学科的视角。篇章最后简要比较了马克思和托克维尔，虽然不多，但依然深刻。具体可以参见傅勒写马克思的作品。（修正史学很明显能从傅勒的论述中感觉出来）
chapter 10——The Conceptual System of Democracy in America. pp167-196 First published as a preface to Alexis de Tocqueville, De la democratie en Amerique,1981 毕竟是DA的导论，对于整部书有一个梗概的介绍。功力深厚，法国人写的托克维尔还是跟美国人的路数不一样。更显得有历史感（毕竟傅勒是历史权威）也更多了其他学科的视角。篇章最后简要比较了马克思和托克维尔，虽然不多，但依然深刻。具体可以参见傅勒写马克思的作品。（修正史学很明显能从傅勒的论述中感觉出来）
chapter 10——The Conceptual System of Democracy in America. pp167-196 First published as a preface to Alexis de Tocqueville, De la democratie en Amerique,1981 毕竟是DA的导论，对于整部书有一个梗概的介绍。功力深厚，法国人写的托克维尔还是跟美国人的路数不一样。更显得有历史感（毕竟傅勒是历史权威）也更多了其他学科的视角。篇章最后简要比较了马克思和托克维尔，虽然不多，但依然深刻。具体可以参见傅勒写马克思的作品。（修正史学很明显能从傅勒的论述中感觉出来）
