TOCQUEVILLE IN ARABIA: DILEMMAS IN A DEMOCRATIC AGE
Book ID/图书代码: 13560013B66473
English Summary/英文概要: The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tradition, their success will depend in part on an understanding of how Middle Easterners view themselves, their allegiances to family and religion, and their relationship with the wider world in which they are increasingly integrated.
Many of these same questions were raised by Alexis de Tocqueville during his 1831 tour of America, itself then a rising democracy. Joshua Mitchell spent years teaching Tocqueville’s classic account, Democracy in America, in America and the Arab Gulf and, with Tocqueville in Arabia, he offers a profound personal take. One of the reasons for the book’s widespread popularity in the region is that its commentary on the challenges of democracy and the seemingly contradictory concepts of equality and individuality continue to speak to current debates. While Mitchell’s American students tended to value the individualism of commercial self-interest, his Middle Eastern students had grave doubts about individualism and a deep suspicion for capitalism, which they saw as risking the destruction of long-held loyalties and obligations. When asked about suffering, American students answered in psychological or sociological terms, while Middle Eastern students understood it in terms of religion. Mitchell describes modern democratic man as becoming what Tocqueville predicted: a “distinct kind of humanity” that would be increasingly isolated and alone. Whatever their differences, students in both worlds were grappling with a sense of disconnectedness that social media does little to remedy.
We live in a time rife with mutual misunderstandings between America and the Middle East, and Tocqueville in Arabia offers a guide to the present, troubled times, leavened by the author’s hopes about the future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: “阿拉伯之春”,以其呼吁彻底的政治变革在中东几代人中标志着最深刻的人民起义。但如果这些抗议成功的新兴民主诞生在缺乏强有力的民主传统的国家,他们的成功将部分取决于中东人对自己的理解,他们对家庭和宗教的忠诚,以及他们与更广阔的世界的关系。
许多同样的问题托克维尔在1831的美国旅行中就提出来了,现在上升为民主问题了。约书亚•米切尔多年教学托克维尔的经典著作《民主在美国》,《在美国和阿拉伯海湾》和《托克维尔在阿拉伯》,他提供了深刻的个人见解。本书广泛普及的其中一个原因是其对民主的挑战解说,平等的看似矛盾概念, 以及在当前的争论中继续个性发言。虽然米切尔的美国学生往往重视商业自身利益的个人主义,他的中东学生严重质疑个人主义和资本主义 ,他们看见了对长期持有的忠诚和义务的破坏。当被问及苦难,美国学生会回答心理或社会学术语,而中东的学生站在宗教的角度去理解它。米切尔介绍了现代民主的人症成为托克维尔预言的那样:“一种独特的人性化”的人,越来越孤立和孤独。不管他们之间的分歧?礁鍪澜绲难加?社交媒体做一点补救,努力解决不连贯的感觉。
我们生活的时代充斥着美国和中东之间的相互误解,《托克维尔在阿拉伯》提供了对现在,乱世的指导以及笔者对未来的希望。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况:“《“托克维尔在阿拉伯》是对动荡的中东地区民主对学生的影响的研究和有关冥想,通过独特的文化,政治和宗教的镜头以及平等的理念已被广泛接受和拥护的美国的学生来反映出平等的理念最先被中东的人们所接受。约书亚•米切尔将对华盛顿的乔治城大学中他的卡塔尔和伊拉克学生的敏锐观察力编织在一起,微妙的反射了他和阿拉伯文字间的关系,以及遍览了政治哲学作品,尤其是托克维尔的作品,当然也给予卢梭,斯密和马克思的作品重视。米切尔通过世界各地区的有个性的青年男女们均被平等的精神感动,鲜明地对比了期望和忧虑,阐明了民主与自由的未来。”——彼得•贝尔科维奇,胡佛研究所,美国斯坦福大学
"托克维尔告诉我们通过智能的人工镜头和他人的同情,可以了解一种文化的多少东西。约书亚•米切尔知道托克维尔和阿拉伯,他的读者会更了解这两者。"——乔治•F•威尔
“在《托克维尔在阿拉伯》中,约书亚•米切尔作为一个才子和博学的老师探讨了中东。他的书是对中东年轻一代的生活的勇敢阅读,以及对现代的挑战。这本了不起的书借鉴了托克维尔的哲学著作,却没有神秘性和倾向性,它阐明了中东和美国年轻一代的心中所想。《托克维尔在阿拉伯》是一个突出的例子,揭示了知识如何照亮当代的民主和和平。”——贝纳•沙恩,乔治城大学
“《托克维尔在阿拉伯》完成了几乎不? 托克维尔,经常对当代美国生活作出评论,对当代中东的合理的评论员。米切尔认为,中东地区文化教育的支持是必不可少的。他的观点似乎是不切实际的,但在强有力的情况下,这个观点眼光长远,是正确的。”——美国保守2013-10-10
“像托克维尔和他的经典著作《民主在美国》,约书亚•米切尔分析了中东地区的民主潜力——阿拉伯之春,并提供 了目前困扰的清晰看法,对未来的乐观态度。 ——巴诺回顾2013-10-10”
About the Author/作者介绍: 约书亚•米切尔是乔治敦大学政府部门的政治理论的教授。从2005?甑?2008年,他任教于乔治城大学在卡塔尔首都多哈的外交学院。从2008年到2010年,他在伊拉克的美国大学任署理校长。他是多本书籍的作者,包括《自由的脆弱性》:托克维尔在宗教,民主,以及《美国的未来》,由芝加哥大学出版社出版。他住在剑桥。Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. From 2005 to 2008, he taught at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. From 2008 to 2010, he was the acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He is the author of several books, including The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Cambridge, MD.
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