Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre [a] (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) [3] was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers of conservatism, Maistre advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in …

Joseph de Maistre (born April 1, 1753, Chambéry, France—died February 26, 1821, Turin, kingdom of Sardinia [Italy]) was a French polemical author, moralist, and diplomat who, after being uprooted by the French Revolution in 1789, became a great exponent of …

Joseph de Maistre was born in 1753 in the Savoyard alpine town of Chambéry where Rousseau had wiled away his days with Madame de Warens in the 1730s and early 40s. A subject of the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which in the eighteenth century controlled the province of Savoy, Maistre was thus French-speaking by birth, but not French.

Maistre’s insistence on Russia’s Romanization, his status as the Russian court’s most brilliant intellectual figure, and his and the Jesuits’ successes at converting Russian aristocrats to Catholicism eventually led to the imperially ordered expulsion of both him …

De Maistre was the first philosopher of the counterrevolution in France. With the vicomte de Bonald, he gave a set of arguments to legitimists and Catholics. But although de Maistre was admired by many for his consistency in both principle and inference, his variety of political philosophy was never popular, even during the restoration.

Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers of conservatism, Maistre advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the …

May 21, 2018 · The French political philosopher Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) is considered perhaps the leading contemporary philosophical opponent of the Enlightenment on the European continent. Joseph de Maistre was born on April 1, 1753, at Chambéry in Savoy, which is now part of France but was then part of the kingdom of Sardinia.

Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre (April 1, 1753 - February 26, 1821) was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher who, after being uprooted by the French Revolution, became a great exponent of the conservative tradition.

Joseph-Marie, Comte de Maistre, was the most prominent anti-Enlightenment thinker of his time, denouncing French philosophers such as Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de and Diderot, Denis and promoting reactionary political causes.

Joseph de Maistre was a French philosopher and diplomat known for his strong advocacy of conservative thought in response to the French Revolution. He emphasized the importance of tradition, authority, and religious faith as essential components of a stable society.