The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State
Revisiting de Jouvenel's 1945 classic, On Power
“the spirit of domination never slumbers”
Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 to an aristocratic family that embraced the “progressive” mores of the day. His parents divorced. His father married the famous novelist Colette in 1912. In 1920, de Jouvenel