Joseph de Maistre and his European readers : from Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin
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Joseph de Maistre and his European readers : from Friedrich von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin
（Studies in the history of political thought / edited by Terence Ball, Jörn Leonhard, Wyger Velema, v. 5）
Brill, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-291) and index
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Description
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
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Carolina Armenteros and Richard A. Lebrun
Memento, Jean-Louis Darcel
Part I: Maistre in the United Kingdom
Chapter 1, Berlin, Maistre, and Fascism, Cyprian Blamires
Part II: Maistre in Nineteenth-Century France
Chapter 2, Le mystique de la Tradition: Barbey Worships at the Altar of Joseph de Maistre, Kevin Erwin
Chapter 3, Auguste Comte's Reading of Maistre's Du pape: Two Theories of Spiritual Power, Tonatiuh Useche Sandoval
Part III: Maistre's German Readers
Chapter 4, The Correspondence of Frederick von Gentz: The Reception of Du pape in the German-speaking World, Raphael Cahen
Chapter 5, "All Evil is the Cancellation of Unity:" Joseph de Maistre and Late German Romanticism, Adrian Daub
Chapter 6, Maistrian Themes in Walter Benjamin's Sociology, Ryohei Kageura
Chapter 7, A Dialectical Reading of Joseph de Maistre by Herbert Marcuse, Michael Kohlhauer
Part IV: Maistre's Italian Posterity
Chapter 8, Joseph de Maistre and Italy, Marco Ravera
Part V: Maistre's Russian Fate
Chapter 9, Preparing the Russian Revolution: Maistre and Uvarov on the History of Knowledge, Carolina Armenteros
Afterword: The Reception of Maistre's Considerations sur la France, Jose Miguel Nanni Soares
Conclusion, Carolina Armenteros
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Index
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