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Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) by Darrin M. McMahon, Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University. Joseph de Maistre was born in 1753 in the Savoyard alpine town of Chambéry where Rousseau had wiled away his days with Madame de Warens in the 1730s and early 40s. A subject of the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which in the eighteenth ...
Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre ( French: [ də mɛstʁ]; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution.
May 21, 2018 · MAISTRE, JOSEPH DE (1753–1821), Savoyard writer and diplomat. A provocative and controversial opponent of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the Comte Joseph-Marie de Maistre was as often reviled by nineteenth-century liberals as an unscrupulous apologist of the executioner and the Inquisition as he was praised by French royalists ...
The Counter-Enlightenment thinker Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) was an extraordinarily intelligent, well educated, well read, and engaged observer and commentator on foundational developments that have shaped our modern world.
Quick Reference. (1753–1821) Political philosopher, born in Savoy. Although a Catholic, he was for fifteen years a Freemason, and briefly supported the French Revolution.
Dec 16, 2023 · Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) was a conservative political philosopher, critic of the French Revolution (1789–1815). He was born in Sabaudia, although his family descended from France. He did not speak Italian; he wrote only in French, identifying himself as a Savoyard.
Oct 8, 2001 · In Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence leading Maistre scholars offer interpretations of his thought and make available in English recent French scholarship on his life and work.
