PHILOSOPHER

Joseph de Maistre

1753 - 1821

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Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (French: [də mɛstʁ]; 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Despite his close personal and intellectual ties with France, Maistre was throughout his life a subject of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which he served as a member of the Savoy Senate (1787–1792), ambassador to Russia (1803–1817), and 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. He called for the restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of France and for the ultimate authority of the Pope in temporal matters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph de Maistre has received more than 807,593 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Joseph de Maistre is the 211th most popular philosopher (up from 213th in 2019), the 513th most popular biography from France (down from 512th in 2019) and the 30th 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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Over the past year Joseph de Maistre has had the most page views in the with 102,285 views, followed by French (50,235), and Spanish (26,388). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are West Frisian (60.87%), Slovenian (50.10%), and Mazandarani (47.39%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Joseph de Maistre ranks 211 out of 1,267. Before him are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean-François Lyotard, Bias of Priene, Georgi Plekhanov, Julia Kristeva, and Gabriel Marcel. After him are Gaston Bachelard, Rudolf Carnap, Benedetto Croce, Diogenes of Apollonia, Miguel de Unamuno, and Imre Lakatos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Joseph de Maistre ranks 2. Before him is Louis-Alexandre Berthier. After him are Lazare Carnot, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Utamaro, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benjamin Thompson, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1821, Joseph de Maistre ranks 3. Before him are Napoleon, and John Keats. After him are Caroline of Brunswick, John William Polidori, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Franz Karl Achard, Johann Jacob Schweppe, William I, Elector of Hesse, Tudor Vladimirescu, Gregory V of Constantinople, and Jean Rapp.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph de Maistre ranks 513 out of 6,770. Before him are Carlos Gardel (1890), Elisa Bonaparte (1777), Arthur Honegger (1892), Hector Malot (1830), Carloman I (751), and Gabriel Marcel (1889). After him are Gaston Bachelard (1884), Charles de Foucauld (1858), Louis Aragon (1897), André Maurois (1885), Jacques Le Goff (1924), and Gaspard II de Coligny (1519).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Joseph de Maistre ranks 30. Before him are Pierre Gassendi (1592), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Gabriel Marcel (1889). After him are Gaston Bachelard (1884), Roger Garaudy (1913), Guy Debord (1931), Georges Sorel (1847), Nicole Oresme (1323), and Raymond Aron (1905).

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