Joseph de Maistre and His European Readers

From Friedrich Von Gentz to Isaiah Berlin
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19394-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 303 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Political Thought

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Darcel, Jean-Louis

Blamires, Cyprian

Erwin, Kevin

Useche Sandoval, Tonatiuh

Cahen, Raphaël

Daub, Adrian

Kageura, Ryohei

Kohlhauer, Michael

Ravera, Marco

Nanni Soares, José Miguel

Armenteros, Carolina

Lebrun, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, Raphaël 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 Considérations sur la France, José Miguel Nanni Soares
Conclusion, Carolina Armenteros

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 siècle: 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.