Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment / edited by Carolina Armenteros and Richard A. Lebrun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armenteros, Carolina.

Lebrun, Richard.

Series:

SVEC ; 2011:01.

SVEC, 0435-2866 ; 2011:01

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821--Criticism and interpretation.

Maistre, Joseph Marie.

Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821.

Enlightenment.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 254 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2011.

Language Note:

Block quotes in French.

Summary:

The 18th century figure, Joseph de Maistre, has long been regarded as characterising the Counter-Enlightenment, but his intellectual relationship to 18th-century philosophy remains unexplored. This is a comprehensive assessment of his response to the Enlightenment.

Contents:

Polemics of the Counter-Enlightenment. The genius of Maistre / Darrin M. McMahon ; 'This babe-in-arms' : Joseph de Maistre's critique of America / Joseph Eaton ; The negative of the Enlightenment, the positive of order and the impossible positivity of history / Jean-Yves Pranchère

Makers and heirs of the Enlightenment. The Cambridge Platonists mirrored by Joseph de Maistre / Philippe Barthelet ; Maistre's Rousseaus / Carolina Armenteros ; Two great enemies of the Enlightenment : Joseph de Maistre and Schopenhauer / Yannis Constantinidès

Maistrian afterlives of the theological Enlightenment. Enigmatic images of an invisible world : sacrifice, suffering and theodicy in Joseph de Maistre / Douglas Hedley ; Why Maistre became Ultramontane / Emile Perreau-Saussine ; The Savoyard philosopher : deist or Neoplatonist? / Aimee E. Barbeau ; The pedagogical nature of Maistre's thought / Élcio Vercosa Filho

Conclusion / Carolina Armenteros.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.

ISBN:

9780729410083

0729410080

OCLC:

701013480