Download or read book Joseph de Maistre and His European Readers written by Carolina Armenteros and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long known solely as fascism’s precursor, Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) re-emerges in this volume as a versatile thinker with a colossally diverse posterity whose continuing relevance in Europe is ensured by his theorization of the encounter between tradition and modernity.