Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), Savoyard jurist & political conservative
After the passing of the August Decrees on 4 August 1789 he decisively turned against the course of political events in France.
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His mother's family, whose surname was Desmotz, were from Rumilly.
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His further education included a DPhil degree on the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Maine de Biran at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin.
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Little is known about the first years of his life but it is known that he liked to read Auguste Nicolas and Joseph de Maistre.
Berlin argues that, while there were enemies of the Enlightenment outside of Germany (e.g. Joseph de Maistre) and before the 1770s (e.g. Giambattista Vico), Counter-Enlightenment thought did not really 'take off' until the Germans 'rebelled against the dead hand of France in the realms of culture, art and philosophy, and avenged themselves by launching the great counter-attack against the Enlightenment.'
Chapters 4 and 5 have been published as essays in honor of Luigi Rosiello and deal with La Terre Australe connue by Gabriel de Foigny and Joseph de Maistre's views as exposed in his Soirees de Saint Petersbourg.