《The Old Regime and the French Revolution》是Anchor出版的圖書，作者是Alexis de Tocqueville。
基本介紹
- 作者：Alexis de Tocqueville
- 出版社：Anchor
- 出版時間：1983年10月1日
- 頁數：300 頁
- 定價：15.00 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780385092609
- 原作品：L'Ancien régime et la Révolution
內容簡介
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 stimulatin...(展開全部) 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
