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发表于2024-05-14
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When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine's audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies. This Broadview edition of Paine’s famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America. Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet's publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.
Thomas Paine was born in Norfolk, England, on January 29, 1737. He received a basic education in history, mathematics, and science, but left school at age 13 to apprentice in his father's corsetmaking shop. In 1757, he spent time at sea aboard the privateer ship King of Prussia, and later found employment as a journeyman staymaker in London. All the while, Paine continued to study on his own, influenced by the work of two leading figures of the Enlightenment, Isaac Newton and John Locke. He began writing political pamphlets, and at the urging of Benjamin Franklin, emigrated to Philadelphia in 1774 to work as an editor for The Pennsylvania Magazine. In 1776, he published Common Sense, which called for America's political freedom from England. The pamphlet sold more than 150,000 copies in three months. Paine next published The American Crisis during the Revolutionary War, inspiring George Washington to read it to his troops at Valley Forge. By the end of the Revolution, however, Paine's influence had run its course, and he fell out of political favor. He returned to Europe, where he published his treatise Rights of Man, which led to his arrest on charges of high treason. Disillusioned with life abroad, he returned to the U.S. to find himself vilifed as an agitator and atheist. He died in obscurity in New York City in 1809.
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评分首先是感叹佩恩能在君主制的时代,就能提出具体的民主的实践方式;再是觉得,自己有时就像佩恩笔下的advocates of "reconciliation"一样——并没有当事人的经历,也不了解当事人的痛苦,就用自己的一套“二者皆可”论说服别人。可是虽然佩恩对于这种人的批判非常尖锐,我仍然相信,若能理解别人的感情,而后仍然保持着皆可论,不偏激,定然是大智慧。
评分翻开任何一页都在讲同样一件事,无聊透顶
评分小小的一本读得却异常的慢,感觉并没有全部理解……以后有机会再读一遍好了……
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评分火,黑暗因它而获得光明和温暖,但是火却总是在光明和温暖中化为一堆灰烬,有时候这堆灰烬还会被风吹散得没有踪迹。 这几天,终于从出版社朝九晚五的日子中结束了,回到了我的随心所欲中,而把自己幸福地扔到了那部厚重的美国新闻史中——这是一本我在书店驻足犹豫多次的书籍...
评分潘恩的思想无疑是先进的,可<独立宣言>竟然没他什么份儿,开国元勋中也没他的名字。他一生都在辩论,和所有的当权者辩论,我不知道这样说有没有错。 或者说他是一个改革者,要改革所有的旧势力,包括他的创新与发明就是这样。 在创新思想方面,他无疑是一位天才...
评分本书写与1776年,独立宣言发表的那年,与独立宣言一起,成为北美人民反抗英国殖民统治的号角与檄文。 本书目的就是割断当时北美人对英国以及英国式政体的迷信、畏惧,以及幻想和依恋,劝说美国人用自己的力量创造一个崭新的共和国。就像劝慰一个18岁的青年,放弃对家庭和父母...
评分初读《常识》,我立即被托马斯·潘恩富有感染力的语言所吸引和震撼。我不是一个专业研究政治学和历史学的人,只是一个普通的读者。如果撇去潘恩对于英美之间的利弊抗衡等相关的内容,这仍旧不失为一本宣贯常识的好书。 启发民智,扫除蒙昧,质疑成见,托马斯·潘恩之于美国历...
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