Title: The French idea of history : Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794-1854 /
Authors: Armenteros, Carolina
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Maistre, Joseph Marie, Influence.; France Historiography.; France Historiography.
Contents: Joseph de Maistre against Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the statistical beginnings of historical thought, 1794-96 -- Maistrian epistemology and pedagogy in historical perspective -- A Europeanist theory of history : Du pape -- Redemption by suffering : social violence and historical development in the Éclaircissement sur les sacrifices -- Returning the universe to God : time, will, and reason in Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg -- The new truth of historical knowledge : liberty, order, and the rise of the social fact, 1797-1848 -- Historical progress and the logic of sacrifice, 182254 -- The metapolitics of history : socialism, positivism, and tradition, 1820-48.