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.
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...
評分 評分师兄推荐《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...
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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.
评分英譯質量被Jon Elster嚴厲批判,但兩位頂級專傢的序言很精彩(序言內容和已發錶論文有不少重閤)。
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