Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The English Cyclopædia
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Biography. 6v. and Suppl
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Maistre: Considerations on France
Author: Joseph de MaistrePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard Lebrun's 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and chronology by the translator. Published in 1797, the work of the self-exiled Maistre presents a providential interpretation of the French Revolution and argues for a new alliance of throne and altar under a restored Bourbon monarchy. Although the Directory and then Napoleon delayed Maistre's influence within France until the Restoration, he is now acknowledged as the most eloquent spokesperson for continental conservatism. Considerations on France was a shrewd piece of propaganda, but, as Isaiah Berlin contends, by arguing his case in broad historical, philosophical and religious terms, Maistre raises issues of enduring importance.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: The English cyclopædia, conducted by C. Knight. Biography
Author: English cyclopaediaThe Catholic Encyclopedia
Author: Charles George HerbermannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
St Petersburg Dialogues
Author: Joseph Marie comte de MaistrePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect at the end of the twentieth century. As the literary critic George Steiner has remarked, "the age of the Gulag and of Auschwitz, of famine and ubiquitous torture, ... nuclear threat, the ecological laying waste of our planet, the leap of endemic, possibly pandemic, illness out of the very matrix of libertarian progress" is exactly what Maistre foretold. In the Dialogues Maistre addressed a number of topics which are discussed briefly or not at all in his other works already available in English. These include an apologetic for traditional Christian beliefs about providence, reflections on the social role of the public executioner and the "divinity" of war, a critique of John Locke's sensationalist psychology, meditations on prayer and sacrifice, and a mini-course on "illuminism." The literary form is that of the "philosophical conversation" -- one that allowed Maistre to be deliberately provocative and to indulge his taste for paradox, a "methodical extravagance" that he judged particularly appropriate for the eighteenth-century salon. Translator and editor Richard Lebrun provides a full scholarly edition of this classic work, complete with an introduction, chronology, critical bibliography, and generous explanatory notes. The Dialogues will be of interest to scholars of literary history as well as the history of ideas.
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Author: Charles Herbermann