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

By Michael Sutton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780511558610, 0521893402, 0521228689, 0511558619, 9780521228688, 9780521893404
LCC
DC340 .S95 1982
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2021185 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Pages
344\344
Topic
History
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

At the time of the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Action Française, 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 Laberthonnière, both of whom strongly contested Catholic indulgence towards Maurras and the Action Française. 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 Française with the cause of Rome, and the confrontation of Maurras's idea of the Roman Church with the Christian ideals upheld by Blondel and Laberthonnière.

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