Background
Joseph-Marie de Maistre was born on April 1, 1753, at Chambéry in Savoy, which is now part of France but was then part of the kingdom of Sardinia.
(Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France (1797) is th...)
Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France (1797) is the best known French equivalent of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. The work of the self-exiled Maistre presents a providential interpretation of the French Revolution and argues for a new alliance of throne and altar under a restored Bourbon monarchy. Although Maistre's influence within France was delayed until the Restoration, he is now acknowledged as the most eloquent spokesperson for continental conservatism. This edition features an Introduction by Isaiah Berlin.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521466288/?tag=2022091-20
(Excerpt from The Pope: Considered in His Relations With t...)
Excerpt from The Pope: Considered in His Relations With the Church, Temporal Sovereignties, Separated Churches, and the Cause of Civilization The passages quoted in support of the Spiritual supre macy of the Holy See, from the ritual books of the Greek and the russo-greek Churches, are themselves a treasure of incalculable price. They are by no means generally known in this country, however familiar they may now be to our more learned controvertists. When Count de Maistre wrote, no reference had yet been made to these remarkable books. Cumbrous from their form and weight, written in Sclavonic, a language which, although very rich and very beautiful, is as strange as Sanscrit to our eyes and ears, printed in repulsive characters, buried in the churches, and handled only by men totally unknown to the world, it is easily understood why this mine has-not been hitherto explored. Every facility for exploring it was enjoyed by the distinguished author, during his resi dence in Russia as ambassador from the court of Turin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/024321166X/?tag=2022091-20
( Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg...)
Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect at the end of the twentieth century. As the literary critic George Steiner has remarked, "the age of the Gulag and of Auschwitz, of famine and ubiquitous torture, ... nuclear threat, the ecological laying waste of our planet, the leap of endemic, possibly pandemic, illness out of the very matrix of libertarian progress" is exactly what Maistre foretold. In the Dialogues Maistre addressed a number of topics which are discussed briefly or not at all in his other works already available in English. These include an apologetic for traditional Christian beliefs about providence, reflections on the social role of the public executioner and the "divinity" of war, a critique of John Locke's sensationalist psychology, meditations on prayer and sacrifice, and a mini-course on "illuminism." The literary form is that of the "philosophical conversation" -- one that allowed Maistre to be deliberately provocative and to indulge his taste for paradox, a "methodical extravagance" that he judged particularly appropriate for the eighteenth-century salon. Translator and editor Richard Lebrun provides a full scholarly edition of this classic work, complete with an introduction, chronology, critical bibliography, and generous explanatory notes. The Dialogues will be of interest to scholars of literary history as well as the history of ideas.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773509828/?tag=2022091-20
(Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark ...)
Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murderous beasts who can only be controlled by the threat of overwhelming punishment. Terrifying and bizarre, The Executioner is a meditation on human evil like no other. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141191635/?tag=2022091-20
(Cover has moderate edge and shelf wear. Pages are age-ton...)
Cover has moderate edge and shelf wear. Pages are age-toned, and have underlining and margin notes. One dog-eared page found. Ships fast from Northern California.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KS0LL4/?tag=2022091-20
Diplomat lawyer philosopher writer
Joseph-Marie de Maistre was born on April 1, 1753, at Chambéry in Savoy, which is now part of France but was then part of the kingdom of Sardinia.
Joseph de Maistre was probably educated by the Jesuits. In 1774 he completed his training in the law at the University of Turin.
Joseph himself, after studying at Turin, received various appointments in the civil service of Savoy, finally becoming a member of the senate. The invasion and annexation of Savoy by the French Republicans made him an exile. He did not take refuge in that part of the king of Sardinia's domains which was for the time spared, but betook himself to the as yet neutral territory of Lausanne. There, in 1796, he published his first important work (he had previously written certain discourses, pamphlets, letters, etc. ), Considerations sur la France. In this he developed his views, which were those of a Legitimist, but a Legitimist entirely from the religious and Roman Catholic point of view. The philosophism of the 18th century was Joseph de Maistre's lifelong object of assault. After the still further losses which, in the year of the publication of this book, the French Revolution inflicted on Sardinia; Charles Emmanuel summoned Joseph de Maistre to Turin, and he remained there for the brief space during which the king retained a remnant of territory on the mainland. Then he went to the island of Sardinia, and held office at Cagliari. In 1802 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg, and journeyed thither the next year. Although his post was no sinecure, its duties were naturally less engrossing than the official life, with intervals of uneasy exile and travelling, which he had hitherto known, and his literary activity was great. He only published a single treatise, on the Principe generateur des Constitutions; but he wrote his best and most famous works, Du Pape, De L'eglise gallicane and the Soirees de St Petersbourg, the last of which was never finished. Du Pape, which the second-named book completes, is a treatise in regular form, dealing with the relations of the sovereign pontiff to the Church, to temporal sovereigns, to civilization generally, and to schismatics, especially Anglicans and the Greek Church. It is written from the highest possible standpoint of papal absolutism. The Soirees de St Petersbourg, so far as it is anything (for the arrangement is some-what desultory), is a kind of theodicee, dealing with the fortunes of virtue and vice in this world. It contains two of De Maistre's most famous pieces, his panegyric on the executioner as the foundation of social order, and his acrimonious, and in part unfair, but also in part very damaging, attack on Locke. The Du Pape is dated May 1817; on the Soirees the author was still engaged at his death. Besides these works he wrote an examination of the philosophy of Bacon, some letters on the Inquisition (an institution which, as may be guessed from the remarks just noticed about the executioner, was no stumbling-block to him), and, earlier than any of these, a translation of Plutarch's "Essay on the Delay of Divine Justice, " with somewhat copious notes. After 1815 he returned to Savoy, and was appointed to high office, while his Du Pape made a great sensation. But the world to which he had returned was not altogether in accordance with his desires. He had domestic troubles; and chagrin of one sort and another is said to have had not a little to do with his death by paralysis on February 26, 1821, at Turin. Most of the works mentioned were not published till after his death, and it was not till 1851 that a collection of Lettres et opuscules appeared, while even since that time fresh matter has been published.
(Excerpt from The Pope: Considered in His Relations With t...)
(Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark ...)
( Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg...)
(Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France (1797) is th...)
( Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of ...)
(Cover has moderate edge and shelf wear. Pages are age-ton...)
(Letters on the Spanish Inquisition. 126 Pages.)
(Book by Joseph de Maistre)
Quotations:
"Every country has the government it deserves. "
"All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. "
"Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion. "
"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. "
Joseph de Maistre was a member of the progressive Scottish Rite Masonic lodge at Chambéry from 1774 to 1790.
Maistre served as a member of the Savoy Senate from 1787 to 1792.
In 1786, Joseph-Marie de Maistre married Franceline Morand de Saint Sulpice, they had three children.