The French idea of history
Subtitle: Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794-1854
By: Carolina Armenteros
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780801449437
Subjects: Historiography; Influence; France
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Joseph de Maistre against Jean-Jacques Rousseau : the statistical beginnings of historical thought, 1794-96; title: Maistrian epistemology and pedagogy in historical perspective; title: A Europeanist theory of history : Du pape; title: Redemption by suffering : social violence and historical development in the Éclaircissement sur les sacrifices; title: Returning the universe to God : time, will, and reason in Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg; title: The new truth of historical knowledge : liberty, order, and the rise of the social fact, 1797-1848; title: Historical progress and the logic of sacrifice, 182254; title: The metapolitics of history : socialism, positivism, and tradition, 1820-48.