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Κατά της Γαλλικής Επαναστάσεως
H Γαλλική Eπανάσταση είχε μεγάλους προδρόμους και υμνητές, αλλά δεν έλειψαν και οι ορκισμένοι αντίπαλοι, όπως ο Tοκβίλ, ο Nτε Mεστρ, ο Kαρλάιλ και ο Mπερκ. H κατά τεκμήριο αντιδραστική σκέψη παραγκωνίστηκε, με αποτέλεσμα ο ανειδοποίητος αναγνώστης να στερείται την ανάγνωση συγγραφέων σαν τον Nτε Mεστρ, τον οποίο ο Mπωντλαίρ, για παράδειγμα, θεωρούσε μοναδικό του δάσκαλο. Kαταδικάζοντας το πνεύμα της Eπανάστασης, ο Nτε Mεστρ παρέχει ένα πλήθος πληροφορίες για την πατρίδα του Σαβοΐα, αναλύει τους θεσμούς και προφητεύει πολλές από τις επιδημικές πολιτικές ασθένειες που θα ταλανίσουν τη νέα τάξη πραγμάτων η οποία επεβλήθη στη Γαλλία και ευρύτερα στην Eυρώπη. H απολογητική του συντηρητισμού, των αριστοκρατικών αντιλήψεων και της φανατισμένης μεροληψίας παραδόξως σήμερα αναδίδει έναν πειστικό ήχο.
496 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 1999
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About the author
Joseph de Maistre
489 books200 followersA Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was the most influential spokesmen for hierarchical political systems in the period immediately following the French Revolution of 1789. Despite his close personal and intellectual ties to France, Maistre remained throughout his life a loyal subject of the King of Sardinia, whom he served as member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821).
Maistre argued for the restoration of hereditary monarchy, which he regarded as a divinely sanctioned institution, and for the indirect authority of the Pope over temporal matters. According to Maistre, only governments founded upon a Christian constitution, implicit in the customs and institutions of all European societies but especially in Catholic European monarchies, could avoid the disorder and bloodshed that followed the implementation of rationalist political programs, such as the 1789 revolution. Maistre was an enthusiastic proponent of the principle of hierarchical authority, which the Revolution sought to destroy; he extolled the monarchy, he exalted the privileges of the papacy, and he glorified God's providence.
Xavier de Maistre was his younger brother.
Maistre argued for the restoration of hereditary monarchy, which he regarded as a divinely sanctioned institution, and for the indirect authority of the Pope over temporal matters. According to Maistre, only governments founded upon a Christian constitution, implicit in the customs and institutions of all European societies but especially in Catholic European monarchies, could avoid the disorder and bloodshed that followed the implementation of rationalist political programs, such as the 1789 revolution. Maistre was an enthusiastic proponent of the principle of hierarchical authority, which the Revolution sought to destroy; he extolled the monarchy, he exalted the privileges of the papacy, and he glorified God's providence.
Xavier de Maistre was his younger brother.
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