De Maistre (1754-1821)
Last of six weekly lectures by Isaiah Berlin
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
In these lectures Isaiah Berlin has discussed the ideas of social and political thinkers before and after the French Revolution which, in his view, have had a greater influence both for good and evil in the twentieth century than in their own time and are now more important than ever.
This lecture is concerned with the views of Comte Joseph Marie de Maistre, most brilliant and savage of all the critics of liberal democracy and one of the earliest forerunners of romantic Fascism.