Aristocratic Republicanism in the age of revolutions: a transatlantic perspective

我的研究旨在阐明早期现代革命共和思想的传统，这一传统通常被历史学家所忽视，它支持贵族政府，拒绝民主，认为民主与自由不相容。贵族共和主义，由汉密尔顿、莫里斯、西伊<s:1>和罗德尔等保守革命者组成的网络，在18世纪后半叶极具影响力，但却很少得到学术上的研究。尽管对跨大西洋革命激进主义的研究付出了巨大的努力，但很少有人关注这些保守的共和党人，以及他们在共和党对革命时代故事的更广泛影响中的地位。由于他们反对被昆丁·斯金纳（Quentin Skinner）、菲利普·佩蒂特（Philip Pettit）和J.G.A.波科克（J.G.A. Pocock）等学者视为共和传统标志的参与性自由愿景，他们往往被排除在本国“真正的”共和传统之外，而被视为反对古典共和主义的原始现代和自由思想家，因为古典共和主义在他们的国家表现出来。我将证明，事实并非如此，这些人借鉴了典型的共和主义来源来否定激进的政治，应该被理解为共和传统中一个独特而重要的潮流。

My research seeks to elucidate a tradition in Early Modern revolutionary republican thought which historians havetypically disregarded, which championed aristocratic government and rejected democracy as incompatible with liberty.The aristocratic republicanism, of the network of conservative revolutionaries comprising Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris,Sieyès, and P.L. Roederer was extremely influential in the latter part of the 18th-century, but has received little scholarlytreatment. Despite the significant effort dedicated to the study of Transatlantic revolutionary radicalism, little attention hasbeen paid to these conservative republicans and their place in the wider republican influence on the story of the age ofrevolutions. Due to their opposition to the participatory vision of liberty seen as the hallmark of the republican tradition byscholars like Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit, and J.G.A. Pocock, they have tended to be excluded from the 'authentic'republican traditions in their countries, and instead framed as proto-modern and liberal thinkers opposed to ClassicalRepublicanism as it manifested in their countries. I will demonstrate that this was not the case, and that these men drewupon typical republican sources to repudiate radical politics, and ought to be understood as a distinct and importantcurrent within the republican tradition.