Joseph de Maistre

The evidence was impressive and complete, and the induction therefrom of a social order, at once new and inevitable, suited to a nicety the yearnings of his generation.

the main result of the hegelian movement was to lend a new sanction to philosophic conservatism the impact of the revolutionary wars seems to have turned the mind of its founder towards the justification of established order in that sense hegel is a chief of reactionary romanticism and his affinity to men like burke and savigny is obvious Yet the essence of Hegelianism is, at the same time, the idea of evolution, and, to an age which, as with de Maistre, was chiefly concerned with finding the basis of a permanent social scheme, the notion of evolution was a definitely radical one.

For Hegel insists on the impermanence of institutions.

Each age is its predecessor with a difference.

[laughs] So I asked you to do this with me.

Um, Imperium Press put this out, I think it was six months ago or so, and Joseph de Maistre in, in letters that he's sending to a Russian, um, aristocrat, and we don't even know who the Russian aristocrat is, which is really cool.

I, I actually like that.

Um, he defends the Spanish Inquisition.

Yep.

Yep.

So, uh, before we do that, I wanted to give a little background, um, for people who don't know Joseph de Maistre.

Um, I'll read what, what was put in Imperium Press's, uh, volume one of his major works in the front.

All these people are important for me.

But, you know, there is a phrase in Baudelaire who said that Joseph de Maistre m'a appris à raisonner.

So Joseph de Maistre taught me to think.

I think I could tell it about Walter Benjamin.

Culture of despite, I think that starting from 2022 or maybe earlier, I was telling everybody that despite is the key Ukrainian word.

The US Constitution obligates our government to preserve and protect the rights that our founders recognize come from God our creator, not our government.

I believe that scripture in the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raised up each of you, and God has allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment in time.

This is Jenna Ellis in the morning.

Good morning.

So, uh, so that part of it, um, is, is less controversial within Christian and conservative circles.

But what is controversial still, uh, is this issue of live-streaming.

And so, uh, this will be the first, uh, person to be publicly executed in the United States in nearly a century, but certainly the first one to be live-streamed.

And a live stream, you know, according to some, is the new public square.

I hold out Charles Maurras as an example.

Maurras was an atheist, and I think he was more of a fascist than a reactionary, even though, like, he, he, he held out, you know, de, de Maistre was obviously his primary influence.

So he held out, uh, the monarchy and, and in particular the Roman Church as, as essential aspects of, of the, of the French as a people and, you know, the-- a- and a- and as a, as a racial organism, you know, that could coherently be said to exist historically.

You know, um, so even people who aren't devout Christians or Muslims, um, they, uh...

So the fact that this man was executed, like even if you reject the inferences I draw from that, whether anybody else does, you really can't get away from discussing the fact that, you know, the man was murdered, uh, uh, you know, in, in an official capacity.

You know, and Georges Sorel, who I think is fundamentally important, I mean, I think beyond important, I think he's essential.

In conceptual terms, I think Sorel and de Maistre are like the real, along with Heidegger, are like the essential theorists of the ideological right.

And of course, that's something that separates people so identified from conservatives, you know.