close

Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution

Jon Elster, Arthur Goldhammer · ISBN 9780521718912
Tocqueville: The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution | Zookal Textbooks | Zookal Textbooks
Format:
Out of stock
$36.95  Save $1.88
$35.07
-
+
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Author(s) Jon Elster / Arthur Goldhammer
Published 20th June 2011
Related course codes
This translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As both a Tocqueville scholar and an award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer is uniquely qualified for the task. In his Introduction, Jon Elster draws on his recent work to lay out the structure of Tocqueville' argument. Readers will appreciate The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution for its sense of irony as well as tragedy, for its deep insights into political psychology and for its impassioned defense of liberty.
Translation missing: en.general.search.loading