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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. One of the forefathers of conservatism, Maistre advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph de Maistre has received more than 816,797 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Joseph de Maistre is the 213th most popular philosopher (up from 222nd in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from France (down from 511th 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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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Joseph de Maistre ranks 213 out of 1,081. Before him are Julia Kristeva, Marsilius of Padua, Hasan al-Basri, Proclus, Diotima of Mantinea, and Ibn Tufail. After him are Chilon of Sparta, Bias of Priene, Slavoj Žižek, Benedetto Croce, Miguel de Unamuno, and Isaiah Berlin.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph de Maistre ranks 512 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis Aragon (1897), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Patrick Modiano (1945), Philippe Pinel (1745), and Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550). After him are Annie Girardot (1931), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Antoine of Navarre (1518), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), Joseph Joffre (1852), and Marcel Mauss (1872).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Joseph de Maistre ranks 30. Before him are Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Gabriel Marcel (1889), and Jean-François Lyotard (1924). After him are Gaston Bachelard (1884), Guy Debord (1931), François Fénelon (1651), Jacques Maritain (1882), Nicole Oresme (1323), and Roger Garaudy (1913).

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