Armenteros, Carolina.

The French idea of history Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794-1854 / [electronic resource] : Carolina Armenteros. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011. - xiii, 361 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Joseph de Maistre and the idea of history, 1794-1820: The statistical beginnings of historical thought : Joseph de Maistre against Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 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 -- pt. 2. Historical thought in France, 1798-1845: The new truth of historical knowledge : liberty, order, and the rise of the social fact, 1797-1848 ; Historical progress and the logic of sacrifice, 1822-54 ; The metapolitics of history : socialism, positivism, and tradition, 1820-48.


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Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821 --Influence.


France--Historiography.


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