@willwilkinson @normative Agree + add that univocal message to followers is "he is the suffering servant + always and everywhere the true victim," + the message that he alone can protect flag + country + people (is that equivocal? only rude cosmopolitans s
@tameszu @poxy_proxy @brianbeutler @NYT Great respect for T + Method incl. critique of prejudice against prej. Ricoeur, philosophers’ philosopher, mediated Gadamer/Habermas in “Hermeneutics of Distanciation”; + his pages on Louis Marin on Louis 14 in Memor
@DavidAFrench Carroll's opinion as quoted in @NYMag is that some supporters see his assaults as a plus, as in droit du seigneur is a good thing--all while 45 presents himself as Suffering Servant. Think Louis Marin's Portrait of the King helps make sense o
@brianbeutler Absolutism in Its True Grandeur wasn’t just for Louis XIV...see Emmanuel Ladurie, The Ancien Regime or Louis Marin— https://t.co/j7p68pwtyB
