Table of Contents

I Philosophy and Politics.- II Edmund Burke and German Political Philosophy in the Age of Romanticism.- III Antoine de Rivarol and the French Revolution.- IV De Lamennais’ Political and Social Philosophy.- V Auguste Comte and Joseph de Maistre: The System of Positivism as Theocracy.- VI The Idea of Sanction: Jeremy Bentham and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.- VII Historical and Natural Right and the Idea of Order as a Problem of Political Philosophy.- Postscript.- Notes.