By Jon Elster & Arthur Goldhammer
This new translation of an undisputed vintage goals to be either actual and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of fashion and profundity of proposal provide a problem to readers in addition to to translators. As either a Tocqueville student and an award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer is uniquely certified for the duty. In his advent, Jon Elster attracts on his fresh paintings to put out the constitution of Tocqueville' argument. Readers will relish The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution for its feel of irony in addition to tragedy, for its deep insights into political psychology and for its impassioned safeguard of liberty.Book DescriptionThis new translation of an undisputed vintage goals to be either actual and readable. Readers will take pleasure in The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution for its experience of irony in addition to tragedy, for its deep insights into political psychology, and for its impassioned protection of liberty. concerning the AuthorJon Elster has taught on the Université de Paris VIII, the collage of Oslo, the collage of Chicago, Columbia collage and the Collège de France. he's the writer of twenty-three books translated into seventeen languages, together with Ulysses and the Sirens (1979), bitter Grapes (1983), Making feel of Marx (1985), Alchemies of the brain (1999), Explaining Social habit (2007), Le désintéressement (2009), Alexis de Tocqueville: the 1st Social Scientist (Cambridge college Press, 2009) and L'Irrationalité (2010). Professor Elster is a member of the yankee Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of technological know-how and Academia Europaea, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.Arthur Goldhammer has translated greater than a hundred works from French, together with Tocqueville's Democracy in the USA. he's a three-time recipient of the French-American starting place translation prize. France made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Académie Française provided him its Médaille de Vermeil. [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]
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Since the French Revolution had as its objective not simply to change the existing government but to abolish the existing form of society, it was obliged simultaneously to attack all established powers, to undermine all acknowledged influences, to efface traditions, to renew mores and customs, and somehow to rid the human mind of all the ideas on which respect and obedience had previously been founded. This accounts for its singularly anarchical character. But clear away all this debris and you will see an immense and unified central government, which has drawn in and devoured all the bits of authority and influence that were once parceled out among a host of secondary powers, orders, classes, professions, families, and individuals – scattered, as it were, throughout the social body.
The entire physiognomy of that Revolution revealed itself to me little by little. Its temperament, its genius, could already be divined; it was already itself. I discovered not only the logic that would guide its first steps but, perhaps more important, early hints of its long-term aftereffects. For the Revolution went through two distinct phases: a first phase during which the French seemed to want to abolish everything from their past, and a second in which they would recover part of what they had left behind.
Hence, there were no great religious revolutions in the West before the advent of Christianity. Easily transcending all the obstacles that had halted the spread of pagan religions, Christianity quickly conquered a substantial portion of the human race. I do not think it is disrespectful to this holy faith to say that it owed its triumph in large part to its having gone further than any other religion in shedding specific ties to any people, form of government, social state, period, or race. 12 on Wed Oct 10 11:09:00 BST 2012.