Joseph de Maistre and his European Readers -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Memento -- PART I: MAISTRE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- Berlin, Maistre, and Fascism -- PART II: MAISTRE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE -- Le Mystique de la Tradition: Barbey Worships at the Altar of Joseph de Maistre -- Auguste Comte's Reading of Maistre's Du pape: Two Theories of Spiritual Authority -- PART III: MAISTRE'S GERMAN READERS -- The Correspondence of Friedrich von Gentz: The Reception of Du pape in the German-speaking World -- "All Evil is the Cancellation of Unity": Joseph de Maistre and Late German Romanticism -- Maistrian Themes in Walter Benjamin's Sociology -- A Dialectical Reading of Joseph de Maistre by Herbert Marcuse -- PART IV: MAISTRE'S ITALIAN POSTERITY -- Joseph de Maistre and Italy -- PART V: MAISTRE'S RUSSIAN FATE -- Preparing the Russian Revolution: Maistre and Uvarov on the History of Knowledge -- Epilogue: The Reception of Maistre's Considerations sur la France -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.