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New Maistre studies.(Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies)(Book review)
; Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected...University Press, 2001. 338 pp. IN Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought and Influence Maistre...emergency measures to take, just as Joseph de Maistre was doing. (38) Maistre is a reformer...
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Maistre and Hobbes on providential history and the English Civil War.(Joseph de Maistre)(Thomas Hobbes)
; ...Isaiah Berlin, the Catholic thinker Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)was a terrifying prophet...Stephen Holmes has characterized Maistre as a proponent of antiliberalism...and commentators have depicted Maistre as a reactionary figure in the...
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Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies.(Book Review)
; ...brilliant, critics of modernity, Joseph de Maistre remains an iconic figure in Western...for his reactionary positions, Maistre's penetrating and wide-ranging...yet, in these polemical disputes Maistre has often been caricatured instead...
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From human nature to normal humanity: Joseph de Maistre, Rousseau, and the origins of moral statistics.(Critical essay)
; ...Conservatives, and best exemplified by Joseph de Maistre in his writings on Rousseau. Indeed...was made in any text, it was in Maistre's On the State of Nature. Written...It constituted, specifically, Maistre's attempt to reverse the logic...
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(book reviews)
; Maistre, Joseph de. Edited and translated by Richard...Maistre's works, and Selected studies of Joseph de Maistre, in both French and English. The bibliography...Readers are referred to Isaiah Berlin's Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism (1990) for...
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BOOKENDS: A BOOK IN THE LIFE OF ALAIN DE BOTTON: The best adventures are bedroom adventures
; ...the spring of 1790, a 27-year-old Frenchman, Xavier de Maistre, undertook a momentous journey around his bedroom, later...travel books, Xavier's brother, the political theorist Joseph de Maistre, emphasised that it was not Xavier's intention to cast...Cook etc.' `They were no doubt remarkable men,' said ...
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A History Lesson from 'the Master'
; ...comments of one of the masters of political analysis, Joseph de Maistre (1753- 1821). Initially a supporter of the French...imagination that loses battles" (Jack Lively, The Works of Joseph de Maistre, 257-8). I am convinced that de Maistre was right...
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Will we get what we deserve?(NEWS)
; Byline: ALAN McBRIDE THE Frenchman Joseph le Maistre once said: Every nation has the...deserved Pol Pot, but if what Joseph le Maistre meant was: Every nation that...bothered to vote voted for. As le Maistre rightly says, we got what we...
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ASEAN sans politics.(Opinion & Editorial)
; Every country has the government it deserves. Joseph Maistre THE continuing solidarity of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been its unwritten policy not to meddle or...
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GLOBAL WARNING
; ...irritated by it. I should follow the example of Xavier de Maistre, brother of the brilliantly reactionary philosopher, Joseph, and stick henceforth to my room. In his Voyage autour de ma chambre, de Maistre tells us that by describing his journey he is offering an...
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