Aristocratic Republicanism in the age of revolutions: a transatlantic perspective

我的研究试图阐明历史学家通常忽视的早期现代革命共和党思想中的一个传统，即拥护贵族政府，拒绝民主与自由不相容。贵族共和主义，即包括汉密尔顿、古弗内尔·莫里斯、西埃·S和P.L.罗德尔在内的保守派革命家网络，在18世纪后半叶非常有影响力，但几乎没有得到学术上的对待。尽管致力于研究跨大西洋的革命激进主义，但很少有人关注这些保守的共和党人，以及他们在更广泛的共和党人对革命时代故事的影响中的地位。由于他们反对被昆汀·斯金纳、菲利普·佩蒂特和J.G.A.波科克等学者视为共和党传统标志的参与式自由愿景，他们往往被排除在他们国家的真正的共和党传统之外，而是被框定为反对古典共和主义的原始现代和自由思想家。我将证明情况并非如此，这些人利用典型的共和党来源来否定激进政治，应该被理解为共和党传统中的一股独特而重要的潮流。

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.