Joseph de Maistre on War and Peace. Ritual and Realism

The essay analyses the development of Joseph de Maistre’s ideas on war and peace. Commonly seen as advocating militarism and bloodshed, Maistre’s insights and propositions on the nature of war are in fact highly modern and original. As a witness to the European upheaval of 1792-1815, Maistre emphasi...

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Auteur principal: Rosenberg, Daniel (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2019
Dans: Philosophical journal of conflict and violence
Année: 2019, Volume: 3, Numéro: 2, Pages: 35-51
Sujets non-standardisés:B Joseph de Maistre
B Public Opinion
B Counter-revolution
B Realism
B War
B Sacrifice
B Napoleonic Wars
B Russia
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Résumé:The essay analyses the development of Joseph de Maistre’s ideas on war and peace. Commonly seen as advocating militarism and bloodshed, Maistre’s insights and propositions on the nature of war are in fact highly modern and original. As a witness to the European upheaval of 1792-1815, Maistre emphasizes the indeterminacy and unpredictability of modern war, and its irreducibility to a science or a doctrine. In order to regulate and restrain warfare, Maistre argues, it is necessary to cultivate public opinion, an elusive and difficult process which can only be sustained by informal cultural institutions. The essay also examines the legacy of Maistre’s ideas on war and peace in political thought.
ISSN:2559-9798
Contient:Enthalten in: Philosophical journal of conflict and violence
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.22618/TP.PJCV.20204.1.201003