Louis de Bonald’s Theory of power (1796), or the construction of a social metaphysics of royalty
Bertran de Balanda, Flavien
Louis de Bonald’s Theory of power (1796), or the construction of a social metaphysics of royalty - 2021.
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In 1796, Louis de Bonald published his Théorie du Pouvoir politique et religieux during his emigration in the city of Constance. This work was the matrix from which author's later writings originated, and its argument, more broadly, created the theoretical foundation of the Counter-Revolution. By examining history as a means of explaining the phenomenon of revolution, Bonald also outlined the plans for a restoration he hoped for. The monarchical principle became part of a globalizing metaphysics intended to endow the world with order, and then to reorder it, as it were. Between flights of utopian fancy and allusions to contemporary realities, Bonald mobilized a problematic past, opening up an unpublished conceptual dimension aiming at a lasting social regeneration, consolidating a reconciliation of humanity with itself. Bonald's political philosophy, too often likened indiscriminately to that of de Maistre, is here analyzed in its details, notably the reappropriation of Rousseauist axioms reinterpreted as a weapon against the thought of the Enlightenment.
Louis de Bonald’s Theory of power (1796), or the construction of a social metaphysics of royalty - 2021.
93
In 1796, Louis de Bonald published his Théorie du Pouvoir politique et religieux during his emigration in the city of Constance. This work was the matrix from which author's later writings originated, and its argument, more broadly, created the theoretical foundation of the Counter-Revolution. By examining history as a means of explaining the phenomenon of revolution, Bonald also outlined the plans for a restoration he hoped for. The monarchical principle became part of a globalizing metaphysics intended to endow the world with order, and then to reorder it, as it were. Between flights of utopian fancy and allusions to contemporary realities, Bonald mobilized a problematic past, opening up an unpublished conceptual dimension aiming at a lasting social regeneration, consolidating a reconciliation of humanity with itself. Bonald's political philosophy, too often likened indiscriminately to that of de Maistre, is here analyzed in its details, notably the reappropriation of Rousseauist axioms reinterpreted as a weapon against the thought of the Enlightenment.
Réseaux sociaux