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Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment
Title
Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment / edited by Carolina Armenteros and Richard A. Lebrun.
ISBN
9780729410083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0729410080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2011.
Physical Description
ix, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
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.
Format
Books
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
April 14, 2011
Series
SVEC, 2011:01
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.
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.
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