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Joseph de Maistre

1753 - 1821

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Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, and political philosopher. He is chiefly remembered as one of the intellectual forefathers of modern conservatism, noted for his advocacy of social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution. French by language and culture, Maistre was nonetheless a subject of the King of Piedmont–Sardinia, whom he served in various government positions, including stints in the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), as ambassador to the Russian Empire (1803–1817), and as minister of state to the court in Turin (1817–1821). A key figure of the Counter-Enlightenment and a precursor of Romanticism, Maistre regarded monarchy both as a divinely sanctioned institution and as the only stable form of government. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph de Maistre is the 226th most popular philosopher (down from 211th in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from France (down from 513th in 2019) and the 29th most popular French Philosopher.

Joseph de Maistre is most famous for his essay "Considerations on France." In this essay, he argues that the French Revolution was the result of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Joseph de Maistre ranks 226 out of 1,267. Before him are Solomon ibn Gabirol, Benjamin Constant, Xenocrates, Julius Evola, Francisco Suárez, and Paulo Freire. After him are Ernst Bloch, Gaston Bachelard, Benedetto Croce, Al-Ash'ari, Iamblichus, and Carneades.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Joseph de Maistre ranks 4. Before him are Lazare Carnot, Phillis Wheatley, and Louis-Alexandre Berthier. After him are Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benjamin Thompson, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Utamaro, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Franz Karl Achard. Among people deceased in 1821, Joseph de Maistre ranks 3. Before him are Napoleon, and John Keats. After him are Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Caroline of Brunswick, Franz Karl Achard, John William Polidori, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gregory V of Constantinople, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tudor Vladimirescu, and Johann Jacob Schweppe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph de Maistre ranks 566 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), François Jacob (1920), and Hilary of Poitiers (315). After him are Maurice Allais (1911), Paul Langevin (1872), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Theuderic I (485), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), and Richard Clayderman (1953).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Joseph de Maistre ranks 29. Before him are Pierre Bayle (1647), Ernest Renan (1823), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881). After him are Gaston Bachelard (1884), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Roger Garaudy (1913), Nicole Oresme (1323), François Fénelon (1651), and Sebastian Brant (1458).

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