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Catholic Encyclopedia (1917): Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre.Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911):Maistre, Joseph de.
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literary enemy of 18th-century rationalism, in which he delighted to detect logical weakness and shallowness. counterrevolutionary and authoritarian conservatism
Reading
Du pape (1819)
Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg (1821)
Writing available on the net
- Excerpts from Considerations on France (1796).
- Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and other Human Institutions (1809).
- Excerpts from The St. Petersburg Dialogues (1821).
- Excepts from Enlightenment on Sacrifices (1821).
- Excerpts from Study on Sovereignty.
Commentaries
Other sources
- Maistre Homepage. Includes links to etexts of several of his works in French and English.
- Quotations by Joseph de Maistre.
Quotations