The French political philosopher Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) is considered perhaps the leading contemporary philosophical opponent of the Enlightenment on the European continent. Joseph de Maistre was born on April 1, 1753, at Chambéry in...

One of the chief opponents of the Enlightenment (from the French "siecle de lumières, " or Age of the Enlightened) was Joseph de Maistre, French political philosopher and diplomat. The Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement during...

Maistre, Comte Joseph De(1754–1821) Comte Joseph de Maistre, the Savoyard philosopher and diplomat, was born in Chambéry. After the conquest of Savoy by the French revolutionary forces, he retired to Lausanne, where he lived for three...

Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (April 1, 1753- February 26, 1821) was a French-speaking Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was one of the most influential spokesmen for a counter-revolutionary and authoritarian conservatism in the...

Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies, edited by Richard Lebrun, Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 338 pp. IN Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought and Influence Maistre is the focal point of analysis, in contrast with general works on conservatism...

According to Sir Isaiah Berlin, the Catholic thinker Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)was a "terrifying" prophet of fascism and totalitarianism. (1) In a similar vein, Stephen Holmes has characterized Maistre as a proponent of "antiliberalism," that is, a dangerous and misguided reaction against the...