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

by Michael Sutton and Sutton Michael

At the time of the Dreyfus Affair and the start of the Action Fran aise, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521893402
• ISBN13: 9780521893404
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"