ABSTRACT:This article examines Volney right before and after 1789. Placed together in their intellectual historical context, his works in this period – Travels in Syria and Egypt (1787), Considerations (1788), and The Ruins (1791) – offer a valuable guide into the workings of the “Enlightenment narrative” of “European” and “Oriental” history at the critical juncture of the age of revolutions. The image of Volney as a progressive stadial historian and optimist revolutionary hereby cedes its place to that of Volney the worried republican indulged in the heroic attempt to find a way to build a free and stable polity.

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沃尔尼与法国大革命

摘要：本文考察了 1789 年之前和之后的沃尔尼。放在他们的思想历史背景下，他在这一时期的作品——叙利亚和埃及游记（1787 年）、思考（1788 年）和废墟（1791 年）——提供了一个有价值的在革命时代的关键时刻引导“欧洲”和“东方”历史的“启蒙叙事”的运作。沃尔尼作为一个进步的历史学家和乐观的革命家的形象在此让位给了沃尔尼，这位忧心忡忡的共和党人沉迷于英雄式的尝试，寻求建立一个自由和稳定的政体的方法。