Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Editions, Translations, and References xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: Conservatism and History 1
7. A Brief Intellectual Biography 20
8. Part One. Joseph de Maistre and the Idea of History, 1794–1820
9. 1. The Statistical Beginnings of Historical Thought: Joseph de Maistre against Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1794–96 35
10. 2. Maistrian Epistemology and Pedagogy in Historical Perspective 82
11. 3. A Europeanist Theory of History: Du pape 115
12. 4. Redemption by Suffering: Social Violence and Historical Development in the Éclaircissement sur les sacrifices 156
13. 5. Returning the Universe to God: Time, Will, and Reason in Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg 183
14. Part Two. Historical Thought in France, 1798–1854
15. 6. The New Truth of Historical Knowledge: Liberty, Order, and the Rise of the Social Fact, 1797–1848 217
16. 7. Historical Progress and the Logic of Sacrifice, 1822–54 255
17. 8. The Metapolitics of History: Socialism, Positivism, and Tradition, 1820–48 283
18. Conclusion: History and Paradox 315
19. Bibliography 325
20. Index 341