The Limits of Equality: The Intellectual Debate Between Guizot and Tocqueville/平等的限度：基佐与托克维尔的思想争鸣

This book selects two influential thinkers in French intellectual and political circles during the first half of the 19th century—Guizona and Tocqueville—placing their ideas within specific historical contexts to present their consensus and debates, as well as their impact on their contemporaries and posterity. The comparative research perspective helps to explore the merits and demerits of each thinker's theories more deeply, thereby revealing the major problems France faced during its transition from the revolutionary era to the reconstruction era. The experiences and lessons of early French modernization can also help us rationally view the achievements and problems of our own modernization drive, and more smoothly complete our modernization transformation.

本书选取两位在19世纪上半叶法国思想界和政界有重要影响力的思想家——基佐和托克维尔，将他们的思想置于具体的历史语境中，呈现他们的共识与争鸣，以及他们对当时或后世的影响。对比研究的视角有助于更深入地探讨两位思想家的各自理论的得失，进而揭示法国从革命时代向重建时代转变时面临的重大问题。法国现代化早期的经验和教训，也有助于我们理性地看待我国现代化建设的成就和问题，更顺畅地完成现代化转型。