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Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Peguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Peguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century. -Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare

[A]n excellent, thorough, engaging critical biography . . . In Carnal Spirit,, Matthew Maguire maps Peguy's complex intellectual world in fin-de-siecle Paris . . . We need, Maguire calls out from the text, a thinker like Peguy who 'upholds the legitimacy of embodied and particular lives, individual and communal, as well as the demands of universal justice and the dignity of all human beings.' And he is right. -French History [D]ensely argued, empathetic . . . Matthew Maguire deftly addresses such subjects as Peguy's socialism, which had nothing to do with Karl Marx, but derived from an earlier Gallic source, Charles Fourier, who prophesised a pleasure-based society where libido was a motivating element in work and societal interactions. -Catholic Herald Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Peguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Peguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century. -Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare

[D]ensely argued, empathetic . . . Matthew Maguire deftly addresses such subjects as Peguy's socialism, which had nothing to do with Karl Marx, but derived from an earlier Gallic source, Charles Fourier, who prophesised a pleasure-based society where libido was a motivating element in work and societal interactions. -Catholic Herald [A]n excellent, thorough, engaging critical biography . . . In Carnal Spirit,, Matthew Maguire maps Peguy's complex intellectual world in fin-de-siecle Paris . . . We need, Maguire calls out from the text, a thinker like Peguy who 'upholds the legitimacy of embodied and particular lives, individual and communal, as well as the demands of universal justice and the dignity of all human beings.' And he is right. -French History Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Peguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Peguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century. -Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare

Matthew W. Maguire's mastery of Charles Peguy's voluminous writings is impressive. His book will bring certain contemporary questions into sharp relief, not least the new forms of totalization and control whose early versions Peguy detected at the turn of the twentieth century. -Annette Aronowicz, author of Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare [D]ensely argued, empathetic . . . Matthew Maguire deftly addresses such subjects as Peguy's socialism, which had nothing to do with Karl Marx, but derived from an earlier Gallic source, Charles Fourier, who prophesised a pleasure-based society where libido was a motivating element in work and societal interactions. -Catholic Herald

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Matthew Maguire is Associate Professor of History and Catholic Studies at DePaul University and author of The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal Through Rousseau to Tocqueville.

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