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Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and
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Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890-1914 Hardcover - 1983

by Michael Sutton

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At the time of the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Action Franaise, Charles Maurras pressed forward the idea, borrowed from Auguste Comte, of an alliance between Positivists and Catholics. The compatibility of Maurras's own Positivist political ideas with Catholic principles was later questioned by Marc Sangnier, and the ensuing polemic between the two men was itself the origin of a lengthy controversy in which the two leading figures were the philosophers Maurice Blondel and Lucien Laberthonnire, both of whom strongly contested Catholic indulgence towards Maurras and the Action Franaise. This study of Maurrassian ideology and Catholic reactions to it explores a wide range of themes. They include the posterity of Comte's Positivism, anti-semitism at the turn of the twentieth century, the absolutism and romanticism of Maurras's nationalism, the crucial importance of the separation of Church and State for the somewhat fortuitous identification of the Action Franaise with the cause of Rome, and the confrontation of Maurras's idea of the Roman Church with the Christian ideals upheld by Blondel and Laberthonnire.

First line

Although at first only a small and adventitious offshoot of the Dreyfus Affair, the Action Francaise proved to be a robust and long-lived witness to the passions and ideas that tore French political life asunder at the turn of the century.

Details

  • Title Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890-1914
  • Author Michael Sutton
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition.
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date February 28, 1983
  • ISBN 9780521228688 / 0521228689
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.43 x 1.02 in (21.59 x 13.79 x 2.59 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects France - Politics and government - 1870-1940, Church and state - France - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 82004360
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.94

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