SOAN 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Joseph De Maistre, Bourgeoisie, French Revolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Here for the german thinkers the movement took on a strong nationalistic character as a reaction against napoleonic imperialism, among french thinkers the movement measured both a religious and reactionary character. Bonald and maistre developed the catholic counterrevolutionary philosophy which not only provided ideological defense of the post revolutionary order (restoration) but also called for additional regression to the order of the old regime. They contradicted the ideas of the enlightenment and that the inferiority of individual reason compared with reveal and traditional truth. They also rejected the immediate past by defending the providence against the naturalism of the philosophes. He is best known for his book theorie du pouvoir . He treats all form of knowledge as products and expressions of the society that produces them. Every art is a collective effort and therefore the person is simply the tool rather than the creator of an art work.