Joseph de Maistre and His European Readers: From Friedrich Von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin

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Carolina Armenteros, Richard Lebrun
BRILL, May 23, 2011 - Political Science - 303 pages
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Following the publication of Isaiah Berlin's essay on Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), the Savoyard philosopher has been known primarily in the English-speaking world as a precursor of fascism. The essays in this volume challenge this view. Disclosing the inaccuracies and limitations of Berlin's account, they illustrate Maistre's colossally diverse European posterity. Far from an inflexible ideologist, Maistre was a versatile and deeply modern thinker who attracted interpreters across the political spectrum. Through the centuries, Maistre's passionate Europeanism has contributed to his popularity from Madrid to Moscow. And in our times, when religion is re-asserting itself as a source of public reason, his theorization of the encounter between tradition and modernity is lending his work ever more urgent relevance. Cover illustration by Matthieu Manche
 

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About the author (2011)

Carolina Armenteros is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She has published on Maistre in the Journal of the History of Ideas and History of Political Thought. With Richard Lebrun, she has co-edited The New enfant du si cle: Joseph de Maistre as a Writer (St Andrews, 2010) and Joseph de Maistre and the Legacy of Enlightenment (Oxford, 2011). Richard Lebrun is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of two monographs on Maistre, the translator and editor of two volumes of essays on Maistre, and of two other volumes of essays co-edited with Carolina Armenteros. He has published English translations of many of Maistre s works.

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TitleJoseph de Maistre and His European Readers: From Friedrich Von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin
Volume 5 of Studies in the History of Political Thought
EditorsCarolina Armenteros, Richard Lebrun
PublisherBRILL, 2011
ISBN9004193944, 9789004193949
Length303 pages
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Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / Political
Political Science / Essays
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