Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment
By: edited by Carolina Armenteros and Richard A. Lebrun
Series: SVEC -- 2011:01; SVEC -- 2011:01.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780729410083
Subjects: Enlightenment; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Political science
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.

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Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Conclusion / Carolina Armenteros.