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.
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 o...
The present translation of Considerations sur la France is made from the critical French edition of R. de Johannet and F. Vermale (Paris: Vrin, 1936), which in turn is based on Maistre's own corrected edition of 1821."
The present translation of Considerations sur la France is made from the critical French edition of R. de Johannet and F. Vermale (Paris: Vrin, 1936),...
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,...
Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of the French Revolution were intellectual and ideological. The degeneration of its first immen...
St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: "There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals ' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty " We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is...
St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification...
La revolucion francesa supuso el colapso y fin definitivo de la sociedad del Antiguo Regimen. La sociedad estamental, la autoridad y soberania del regimen monarquico absolutista y la primacia del poder religioso fueron cuestionadas. A medida que el viejo mundo iba quedandose atras surgieron detractores y criticos que, desde la reaccion y oposicion furibunda contra el emergente regimen liberal, anticiparon las ideas, en fase embrionaria, que integrarian el discurso antimoderno en lo sucesivo.
La contrarrevolucion antiliberal estuvo liderada por diversos autores, entre los que podemos...
La revolucion francesa supuso el colapso y fin definitivo de la sociedad del Antiguo Regimen. La sociedad estamental, la autoridad y soberania del ...
