Description: Further DetailsTitle: Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of EnlightenmentCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/28/2011EAN: 9780729410083ISBN: 9780729410083Publisher: Voltaire FoundationDescription: 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.Language: FrenchCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmContributor: Carolina Armenteros (Edited by), Richard A. Lebrun (Edited by)Author: Carolina Armenteros, Richard A. LebrunGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Oxford University Studies in the EnlightenmentTopic: Society & CultureISBN-10: 0729410080Type: Communication StudiesRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment
Title: Joseph de Maistre and the legacy of Enlightenment
Release Date: 01/28/2011
Release Year: 2011
EAN: 9780729410083
ISBN: 9780729410083
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Richard A. Lebrun (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
ISBN-10: 0729410080
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Joseph De Maistre and the Legacy of Enlightenment
Language: Eng,Fre
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: Philosophers, Modern / 18th Century, European / French
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Richard A. Lebrun
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6.6 in
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
