Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat. One of the forefathers of conservatism, Maistre advocated social ...

Mar 28, 2024 · Joseph de Maistre was a French polemical author, moralist, and diplomat who, after being uprooted by the French Revolution in 1789, ...

Joseph de Maistre was born in 1753 in the Savoyard alpine town of Chambéry where Rousseau had wiled away his days with Madame de Warens in the 1730s and ...

Joseph de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in ...

Born in Chambéry to a recently ennobled Savoyard family, Joseph de Maistre received a Catholic, likely Jesuit, and erudite education.

A Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher. He was the most influential spokesmen for hierarchical political systems in the period immediately ...

For Joseph de Maistre, the existence of evil, far from obscuring the designs of God, throws a new light on them; for the moral world and the physical world are ...

76 quotes from Joseph de Maistre: 'Every country has the government it deserves.', 'In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence...

Joseph de Maistre is one of the harshest counter-revolutionary critics of the French Revolution. He calls for a return to traditional Catholicism and the ...