Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) was a Savoyard counter-revolutionary philosopher, diplomat, and lawyer, one of the most powerful critics of the French Revolution and Enlightenment rationalism, advocating for papal authority and traditional order.
Articulated the most forceful Catholic counter-revolutionary philosophy; his advocacy for papal infallibility presaged Vatican I; his critique of liberalism anticipated many later conservative themes.
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