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Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback)
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Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment (English, French, Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2011:01
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Although Joseph de Maistre has long been regarded as characterising
the Counter-Enlightenment, his intellectual relationship to
eighteenth-century philosophy remains unexplored. In this first
comprehensive assessment of Joseph de Maistre's response to the
Enlightenment, a team of renowned scholars uncover a writer who was
both the foe and heir of the philosophes. While Maistre was deeply
indebted to thinkers who helped to fashion the Enlightenment -
Rousseau, the Cambridge Platonists - he also agreed with
philosophers such as Schopenhauer who adopted an overtly critical
stance. His idea of genius, his critique of America and his
historical theory all used 'enlightened' language to contradict
Enlightenment principles. Most intriguingly, and completely
unsuspected until now, Maistre used the writings of the early
Christian theologian Origen to develop a new, late, religious form
of Enlightenment that shattered the logic of philosophie. The
Joseph de Maistre revealed in this book calls into question any
simple opposition of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, and
offers particular lessons for our own time, when religion is at the
forefront of public debate and a powerful political tool.
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