Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805 to a noble French family that had survived the French Revolution. His father gained some political power under the reign of the Bourbons, and after the July Revolution of 1830, the family was exiled along with the king. Tocqueville, then twenty-five years old, stayed in France, swearing allegiance to the new government. Shortly thereafter he and a friend, Gustave de Beaumont, sought and received a government assignment to study the prison system of the United States. They arrived in America in 1831. After extensive travels across the young nation, Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America (published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840). The publication of the first volume made Tocqueville a well-known figure, but he led a quiet life, accepting modest governmental posts, traveling around Europe, and marrying an Englishwoman. In 1848, Tocqueville once again rose to political prominence after a prescient speech that foretold of revolution. After serving through the massive upheavals and overthrows of government, Tocqueville retired from political life in 1849. Always weak in health, his lung disease grew progressively worse from that period on. Moving south several times on doctor’s recommendations, Tocqueville succumbed to death in 1859, in Cannes.
A powerful new translation of de Tocqueville’s influential look at the origins of modern France
In this penetrating study, Alexis de Tocqueville considers the French Revolution in the context of France’s history. de Tocqueville worried that although the revolutionary spirit was still alive and well, liberty was no longer its primary objective. Just as the first Republic had fallen to Napoleon and the second had succumbed to his nephew Napoleon III, he feared that all future revolutions might experience the same fate, forever imperiling the development of democracy in France.
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 评分一部书可以成为传世名著,其根本原因在于它其中蕴涵着一些同普遍人性相关的东西,可以超越时间地点,乃至民族文化。《旧制度与大革命》,恰恰就是这样一本书。 托克维尔是我非常尊敬的一位作家,他的另一本《论美国的民主》,也令我受益匪浅。贵族出身,又参与法国大革命和美国...
评分师兄推荐《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...
评分一部书可以成为传世名著,其根本原因在于它其中蕴涵着一些同普遍人性相关的东西,可以超越时间地点,乃至民族文化。《旧制度与大革命》,恰恰就是这样一本书。 托克维尔是我非常尊敬的一位作家,他的另一本《论美国的民主》,也令我受益匪浅。贵族出身,又参与法国大革命和美国...
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评分'”不惜一切代价发财致富的欲望、对商业的嗜好、对物质利益和享受的追求,便成为最普通的感情这种感情轻而易举地散布在所有借机之中,甚至深入到一向与此无缘的阶级中,如果不加以阻止,它很快便会使整个民族萎靡堕落“' It's English ebook is available
评分'”不惜一切代价发财致富的欲望、对商业的嗜好、对物质利益和享受的追求,便成为最普通的感情这种感情轻而易举地散布在所有借机之中,甚至深入到一向与此无缘的阶级中,如果不加以阻止,它很快便会使整个民族萎靡堕落“' It's English ebook is available
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