The Political Thought of Joseph De Maistre

1949 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
French History ◽  
Old Regime

With the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France, there began one of the most intellectually fruitful periods in French history. The French suddenly had a greater freedom than had been enjoyed for some time, and as Lamartine tells us, “scarcely was the Empire overturned, when people began to think, to write, and to sing again in France. … All that had been hitherto silent now began to speak.” In politics, all sides had powerful spokesmen. But the old regime, suddenly given a new lease on life, seldom before had been favored with such brilliant apologists as Chateaubriand, Bonald, Lamen-nais, and Joseph de Maistre, the prophète du passé. One thing should be made clear. That Maistre's political thought was superior to that of the others of this school, there can be little doubt. But that Maistre was the chief exponent of the reaction during the Restoration is a fact rather falsely assumed of at least open to exceeding doubt.

scholarly journals “DOES DEMOCRACY END IN TERROR?” TRANSFORMATIONS OF ANTITOTALITARIANISM IN POSTWAR FRANCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEVIN DUONG
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
French History ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
May 1968

Does democracy end in terror? This essay examines how this question acquired urgency in postwar French political thought by evaluating the critique of totalitarianism after the 1970s, its antecedents, and the shifting conceptual idioms that connected them. It argues that beginning in the 1970s, the critique of totalitarianism was reorganized around notions of “the political” and “the social” to bring into view totalitarianism's democratic provenance. This conceptual mutation displaced earlier denunciations of the bureaucratic nature of totalitarianism by foregrounding anxieties over its voluntarist, democratic sources. Moreover, it projected totalitarianism's origins back to the Jacobin discourse of political will to implicate its postwar inheritors like French communism and May 1968. In so doing, antitotalitarian thinkers stoked a reassessment of liberalism and a reassertion of “the social” as a barrier against excessive democratic voluntarism, the latter embodied no longer by Bolshevism but by a totalitarian Jacobin political tradition haunting modern French history.

scholarly journals TECNICAMENTE, A PRIMEIRA CONSTITUIÇÃO DO BRASIL * TECHNICALLY, THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF BRAZIL

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Wagner Silveira Feloniuk
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Portuguese Text ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Old Regime

<div><strong>Resumo:</strong> Artigo propondo o reconhecimento das Bases da Constituição da Monarquia Portuguesa como a primeira norma a viger no Brasil como Constituição. O texto português vigeu a partir de 9 de março de 1821 no Brasil. A norma se proclama Constituição, tem declaração de direitos, separação de poderes, foi outorgada pelo detentor da soberania (no sistema do antigo regime) e, portanto, tem todos os requisitos para ser, ainda que apenas tecnicamente, a primeira Constituição em território brasileiro. É realizado estudo histórico do contexto da norma, tanto para apresentar seu conteúdo liberal quanto para verificar dados que indiquem sua efetiva vigência no Brasil. Também se apresenta o conteúdo da norma para aferir a real ligação dela com o pensamento político que se desenvolvia na Europa e América do Norte.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Bases da Constituição da Monarquia Portuguesa; Constitucionalismo; Portugal; Brasil; História do Direito.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Abstract:</strong> Paper proposing the recognition of the Bases of the Constitution of the Portuguese Monarchy as the first rule into effect in Brazil as Constitution. The Portuguese text was put into effect in March 9, 1821 in Brazil. The rule proclaims itself a Constitution, it has a bill of rights, separation of powers, and it was imposed by the sovereign holder (in the old regime system) and therefore has all the requirements to be, even if only technically, the first constitution in Brazilian territory. It is conducted a historical study of the context of the rule, both to present its liberal content and to verify data indicating their effectiveness in Brazil. It is also presented the contents of therule to measure its the actual link with the political thought that was being developed in Europe and North America.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Keywords:</strong> Bases of the Constitution of the Portuguese Monarchy; Constitucionalism; Portugal; Brazil; Legal History.</div>

Simone Weil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Marovich
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Creation Theology ◽  
Simone Weil

Few of Giorgio Agamben’s works are as mysterious as his unpublished dissertation, reportedly on the political thought of the French philosopher Simone Weil. If Weil was an early subject of Agamben’s intellectual curiosity, it would appear – judging from his published works – that her influence upon him has been neither central nor lasting.1 Leland de la Durantaye argues that Weil’s work has left a mark on Agamben’s philosophy of potentiality, largely in his discussion of the concept of decreation; but de la Durantaye does not make much of Weil’s influence here, determining that her theory of decreation is ‘essentially dialectical’ and still too bound up with creation theology. 2 Alessia Ricciardi, however, argues that de la Durantaye’s dismissal of Weil’s influence is hasty.3 Ricciardi analyses deeper resonances between Weil’s and Agamben’s philosophies, ultimately claiming that Agamben ‘seems to extend many of the implications and claims of Weil’s idea of force’,4 arguably spreading Weil’s influence into Agamben’s reflections on sovereign power and bare life.

The Political Thought of George Grant

1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
H.D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
George Grant

Entangling Plato: A Guide through the Political Theory Archive

2021 ◽  
pp. 009059172199807
Author(s):  
Liam Klein ◽  
Daniel Schillinger
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Athenian Democracy

Political theorists have increasingly sought to place Plato in active dialogue with democracy ancient and modern by examining what S. Sara Monoson calls “Plato’s democratic entanglements.” More precisely, Monoson, J. Peter Euben, Arlene Saxonhouse, Christina Tarnopolsky, and Jill Frank approach Plato as both an immanent critic of the Athenian democracy and a searching theorist of self-governance. In this guide through the Political Theory archive, we explore “entanglement approaches” to the study of Plato, outlining their contribution to our understanding of Plato’s political thought and to the discipline of political theory.

A Symposium on the Political Thought of H. Mark Roelofs

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-426
Author(s):  
Lori Marso ◽  
Kathy E. Ferguson ◽  
Donald G. Tannenbaum ◽  
Patricia Moynagh ◽  
Ralph P. Hummel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political
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