%0 Journal Article
%T Conu¡¯ Shafirida fa   cu reac iunea: Joseph de Maistre sau Fandacsia Desc tu ata/ Master Shafirida Stands Up to Reaction: Joseph De Maistre or Unleashing Unreason
%A Michael Shafir
%J Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
%D 2007
%I Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies
%X Was Joseph de Maistre a conservative thinker?; an actor who might at any time switch roles with his alleged British counterpart Edmund Burke in a show called ¡°Reactions to the French Revolution¡±? Or was de Maistre (as Sir Isaiah Berlin saw him) a milestone on mankind¡¯s rush to the ¡°Age of Unreason¡± in general, and to the Nazi folly in particular? To answer this controversy, Professor Michael Shafir called on the witness¡¯ stand an unexpected expert in conservatism and the folly of revolutions: Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale. Using as evidence before the court Caragiale¡¯s famous farce ¡°Master Leonida Facing Reaction¡±, this exercise in literary counterfactualism demonstrates, according to Shafir, the fig of reason and faith is too small to cover the wastelands of unreason and Social-Darwinist-like psychopathology.
%K Conservatism
%K Counter-Reaction
%K Enlightenment
%K Social-Darwinism
%K Fascism
%K Nazism
%K Roman-Catholicism
%K Divinity
%K Fall-from-Grace
%K Sin
%K Absolutism
%K Sanction
%K War.
%U http://jsri.ro/ojs/index.php/jsri/article/view/431