Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)

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1. Carl Schmitt

   Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

2. Eric Voegelin

   Author of The New Science of Politics, Order and History, Volume I, Israel and Revelation, Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics

3. Joseph de Maistre

   Author of Maistre: Considerations on France (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence, The works of Joseph de Maistre

4. Karl Löwith

   Author of Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History (Phoenix Books), From Hegel to Nietzsche, My Life in Germany Before and After 1933

5. Frank E. Manuel

   Author of Utopian Thought in the Western World, The Prophets of Paris

6. Jeremy Bentham

   Author of Bentham: A Fragment on Government (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), Bentham's handbook of political fallacies,: Revised and edited by Harold A. Larrabee (Harper Torchbooks. The Academy Lib

7. Leo Strauss

   Author of Thoughts on Machiavelli, On Tyranny

8. Peter Gay

   Author of Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment

9. George L. Mosse

   Author of The Crisis of German Ideology : Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a Third Force in Pre-Nazi Germany

10. H. Stuart Hughes

    Author of Consciousness and Society, Oswald Spengler

11. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, The Myth of the State

12. Eliseo Vivas

    Author of Contra Marcuse

13. Catherine H. Zuckert

    Author of Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

14. Bernard Yack

    Author of The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

15. Gopal Balakrishnan

    Author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt

16. Jacob Burckhardt

    Author of Reflections on History, Judgments on history and historians

17. Chantal Mouffe

    Author of The Challenge of Carl Schmitt

18. J. B. Bury

    Author of The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

19. Denis de Rougemont

    Author of The idea of Europe

20. Elizabeth Marian Butler

    Author of The Tyranny of Greece over Germany: A study of the influence exercised by Greek art and poetry over the great German writers of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries