Carnal SpiritIt is rare for a thinker of Charles Pguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Pguy is contestable and paradoxical. He strongly opposed the modern historicist drive to reduce writers to their times, yet he was very much a product of philosophical currents swirling through French intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a passionate