The first general account of the social and political thought of Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821), a founding author of Continental conservative philosophy and an important theorist of excessive and paradoxical situations
Owen Bradley is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee.
"[Bradley] is very successful in arguing that scholars have been
one-sided and anachronistic in their assessment of the French
conservative. . . . A provocative and engaging reassessment of an
important if unsettling thinker."—American Historical Review
“Bradley’s work makes an important contribution, not only to our
understanding of Joseph de Maistre and his thought, but to
contemporary reflection on a host of general philosophical and
political questions. . . . The political and theoretical issues
that Maistre addressed remain, unfortunately, issues that continue
to challenge us today. In helping us to understand Maistre, Bradley
helps us to understand the problems of our own time.”—Richard A.
Lebrun, author of Joseph de Maistre: An Intellectual Militant
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