TY - JOUR
TI - How to Convert Russia? Some Political and Religious Paradoxes in Joseph de Maistre’s Writings
AU - Maślanka, Łukasz
TI - How to Convert Russia? Some Political and Religious Paradoxes in Joseph de Maistre’s Writings
AB - The history of Russia still attracts a lot of interest and excitement. Often Western people’s perception of this country seems contentious to us, in Poland. The aim of my paper is to familiarise the reader with its depiction of the eminent Savoyard conservative philosopher Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821). De Maistre spent 14 years in St. Petersburg (1803-1817), during which period the Napoleonic wars, and then the final defeat of the French Emperor, thoroughly demolished the geopolitical and ideological aspects of the Old Continent.  I have engaged myself in reconstruction, based on a number of dispersed sources (archives, correspondence, texts, studies), of some political and religious paradoxes and utopias which result of  Joseph de Maistre’s overall vision of the Russian state.
VL - 2018
IS - Numéro 13 La terre, le territoire, la carte
PY - 2018
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 79
EP - 93
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.18.005.8475
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/comment-convertir-la-russie-quelques-paradoxes-politicoreligieux-dans-les-ecrits-de-joseph-de-maistre
KW - Maistre
KW - Russia
KW - science
KW - politics
KW - religion