St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

by Joseph de Maistre

Book Overview

Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect in the twenty-first 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773559442
• ISBN13: 9780773559448
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"