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Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated

By: Joseph de Maistre,Richard A. Lebrun

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Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated

By: Joseph de Maistre,Richard A. Lebrun

Although often neglected, An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon is crucial to understand the epistemological basis for Maistre's critique of modern science as well as his criticisms of other aspects of Enlightenment thought. Given Maistre's stature in the history of conservative thought, his critique of Bacon remains significant for what it tells us about Maistre's own thought, what it reveals about attitudes toward science in his time, and what it contributes to issues that are still debated today. The work also showcases Maistre's polemical skills and his powerful prose style. Richard Lebrun's annotated translation includes Maistre's complete text, an extensive introduction that places the work in context and provides a critical exposition and assessment of Maistre's criticisms of Bacon, biographical notes on persons cited or mentioned by Maistre, and a bibliography. Differences between Maistre's manuscript and the printed text, first published fifteen years after the author's death, are noted, and Maistre's numerous citations have been identified, verified, and translated, making this the only authoritative and fully accurate edition of the work in either French or English.

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0773567186

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Maistre: Considerations on France

By: Joseph de Maistre

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Maistre: Considerations on France

By: Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard Lebrun's 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and chronology by the translator. Published in 1797, 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 the Directory and then Napoleon delayed Maistre's influence within France until the Restoration, he is now acknowledged as the most eloquent spokesperson for continental conservatism. Considerations on France was a shrewd piece of propaganda, but, as Isaiah Berlin contends, by arguing his case in broad historical, philosophical and religious terms, Maistre raises issues of enduring importance.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521466288

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Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated

By: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

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Wherein Different Questions of Rational Philosophy Are Treated

By: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

Although often neglected, this work is crucial for an understanding of Maistre's epistemology, which formed the philosophical basis for his critique of modern science as well as for his criticisms of other aspects of Enlightenment thought. Given Maistre's stature in the history of conservative thought, his critique of Bacon remains significant for what it tells us about Maistre's own thought, for what it reveals about attitudes toward science in his time, and for its relevance for issues that remain under debate today.

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0773517278

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9780773517271

St Petersburg Dialogues

Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

By: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

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St Petersburg Dialogues

Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

By: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

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.

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0773509828

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9780773509825

Maistre: Considerations on France

By: Joseph de Maistre

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Maistre: Considerations on France

By: Joseph de Maistre

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.

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052146076X

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 24-N3

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto,Pro Ecclesia

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 24-N3

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto,Pro Ecclesia

Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442255129

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St Petersburg Dialogues

Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

By: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

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Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

By: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

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Against Rousseau

On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People

By: Joseph de Maistre

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Against Rousseau

On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People

By: Joseph de Maistre

On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People are Maistre's most comprehensive treatment of Rousseau's ideas and his most sustained critique of the ideological foundations of the revolution. On the State of Nature, a detailed critique of Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, focuses on Rousseau's belief in the natural goodness of man; On the Sovereignty of the People, a critique of Social Contract, explores Rousseau's theory of popular sovereignty. In Maistre's eyes Rousseau encouraged the socially destructive individualism that lay at the heart of the French Revolution. However, the essays reveal some surprising ambiguities in the relationship between two seminal thinkers who are usually thought of as polar opposites, suggesting that Maistre's vision was more akin to Rousseau's than he would have admitted. Against Rousseau offers valuable insights into the evolution of Maistre's counter-revolutionary ideas during the crucial years of 1792-97 and illustrates his remarkable insights into society and politics. It is vital to any consideration of his thought or the counter-revolutionary movement in eighteenth-century France.

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077356604X

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9780773566040

The Fall Out of Redemption

Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy

By: Joseph Acquisto

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The Fall Out of Redemption

Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy

By: Joseph Acquisto

Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theoriests who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce those frameworks from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity by canceling the notion of salvation in his writing while also refusing to embrace any of its secular equivalents, such as historical progress or redemption through art. Through a series of "interhistorical" readings that put Baudelaire into dialogue with literary and critical writers from the last 150 years, Acquisto highlights the way both literary and critical approaches attempt to articulate a thir option between theism and atheism that also steers clear of political utopianism and Nietzschean estheticism. In the concluding section, Acquisto expands metaphysical and esthetic concerns to account also for the ethics inherent in the refusal of the logic of salvation, an ethics which emerges from, rather seeking to redeem or cancel, a certain kind of nihilism. -- from back cover.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501326457

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9781501326455

The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions

Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

By: Joseph de Maistre

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The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions

Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

By: Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of the French Revolution were intellectual and ideological. The degeneration of its first immense hopes into the Reign of Terror was not the result of a ruthless competition for power or of prospects of war. He echoed Voltaire's boast that "books did it all." The philosophers of the Enlightenment were the architects of the new regimes; and the shadow between revolutionary idea and social reality could be traced directly to a fatal flaw in their thought.De Maistre asserts that society is the product, not of men's conscious decision, but of their instinctive makeup. Both history and primitive societies illustrate men's gravitation toward some form of communal life. Since government is in this sense natural, it can not legitimately be denied, revoked, or even disobeyed by the people. Sovereignty is not the product of the deliberation or the will of the people; it is a divinely bestowed authority fitted not to man's wishes but to his needs.The French Revolution to de Maistre's mind was little more than the expansion, conversion, pride, and consequent moral corruption of the philosophers. It differs in essence from all previous political revolutions, finding a parallel only in the biblical revolt against heaven. These sentiments are the passionate and awe-inspired language of one who sees the political struggles of his time on a huge and cosmic scale, judges events sub specie aeternitatis (under the aspect of eternity), and looks on revolution and counter-revolution as a battle for the soul of humanity. The force of this classic volume still resonates in present-day ideological struggles.

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Routledge

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1351482327

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The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology

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By: Joseph Thomas

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The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology

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By: Joseph Thomas

Once considered the largest and most extensive source of biographies in the English language, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology contains information on nearly every historical figure, notable name, and important subject of mythology from throughout the world prior to the 20th century. Spanning all fields of human effort-from literature and the arts to philosophy and science-and touching on topics from multiple areas of mythological study, including Norse, Greek, and Roman, this extraordinary reference guide continues to be one of the most thorough and accurate collections of biographical data ever created. Combining mythological and biographical entries into a single, comprehensive list, and incorporating a unique system of indicating pronunciation and orthography, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology offers readers an unparalleled record of historically significant identities, from the obscure and forgotten newsmakers of yesteryear to the highly celebrated shapers of history that remain influential today. Volume III (IAC-PRO) of this exquisite four-volume set includes information on such names as Egyptian goddess Isis, American statesman Thomas Jefferson, German astronomer Johann Kepler, Spartan king Leonidas, Abraham Lincoln, Medusa, Mohammed, Roman emperor Nero, Orion, Plutarch, Ponce de Leon, and many more. JOSEPH THOMAS (1811-1891) also wrote A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary, various pronouncing vocabularies of biographical and geographical names, and a system of pronunciation for Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World.

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1616400730

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9781616400736

Against the Masses

Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution

By: Joseph V. Femia

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Against the Masses

Varieties of Anti-Democratic Thought Since the French Revolution

By: Joseph V. Femia

Given the almost universal assumption that democracy is a 'good thing', the goal of mankind, it is easy to forget that 'rule by the people' has been vehemently opposed by some of the most distinguished thinkers in the Western tradition. The author attempts to combat collective amnesia by systematically exploring and evaluating anti-democratic thought since the French Revolution. Using categories first introduced by A. O. Hirschman in The Rhetoric of Reaction, Femia examines the various arguments under the headings of 'perversity', 'futility', and 'jeopardy'. This classification scheme enables him to highlight the fatalism and pessimism of anti-democratic thinkers, their conviction that democratic reform would be either pointless or destructive. Femia shows how they failed to understand the adaptability of democracy, its ability to co-exist with the traditional and elitist values. But, controversially, he also argues that some of their predictions and observations have been confirmed by history.

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OUP Oxford

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0191521175

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Sacred Rivals

Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria

By: Joseph W. Peterson

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Sacred Rivals

Catholic Missions and the Making of Islam in Nineteenth-Century France and Algeria

By: Joseph W. Peterson

Sacred Rivals focuses on French Catholic ideas about Islam and Arab-ness in the context of religious culture wars in France and of missionary work in colonial Algeria, highlighting the shift from initial admiration for Islam and optimism about Muslim conversion to Christianity to the disillusionment by the end of the nineteenth century when French Catholics joined in racially coded attacks on "Arab" Islam.

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Oxford University Press

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0197605273

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9780197605271

The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History

By: Joseph Mali

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The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History

By: Joseph Mali

Joseph Mali shows how modern thinkers were inspired by Vico to create their own theories of human life and history.

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1107025877

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Book's by Joseph de Maistre

Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Maistre: Considerations on France

Maistre: Considerations on France

Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

St Petersburg Dialogues

St Petersburg Dialogues

Maistre: Considerations on France

Maistre: Considerations on France

Pro Ecclesia Vol 24-N3

Pro Ecclesia Vol 24-N3

St Petersburg Dialogues

St Petersburg Dialogues

Against Rousseau

Against Rousseau

The Fall Out of Redemption

The Fall Out of Redemption

The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions

The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions

The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology

The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology

Against the Masses

Against the Masses

Sacred Rivals

Sacred Rivals

The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History

The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History

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