1st Edition
The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment
Edited By Joseph de Maistre
Copyright 1965
316 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
303 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction, Life, Maistre and His Interpreters, Maistre and the Enlightenment, Human Nature, The Human Condition, The Divine Voice in History, The Problem of Evil, The Political System, Revolutionary and Reactionary Thought, Considerations on France, Study on Sovereignty, On the Nature of Sovereignty The Pope, Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions, Enlightenment on Sacrifices
Biography
de Maistre, Joseph
