Carolina Armenteros: 1 book
The French Idea of History
Joseph de Maistre and His Heirs, 1794–1854
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
"A fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat... the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible dogmatism... part learned doctor, part inquisitor, part executioner." Thus did Émile Faguet describe Joseph-Marie de Maistre (1753–1821) in his 1899 history of nineteenth-century thought. This...
