A political-philosophical conceptualisation of Revolution: J. de Maistre and F. I. Tyutchev

Abstract

The article identifies the features of the political-philosophical concept of the revolution within conservative discourse as analyzed through comparative analysis of the heritage of the representatives of the national traditions of political philosophy: French and Russian. It is noted that the significant point of contact between two thinkers — the famous French ideologist of conservatism, J.#de Maistre, and a great Russian poet and political writer, F. I. Tyutchev, emerged as a political-philosophical understanding of the concept of “revolution”. The author concludes that there is a continuity of de Maistre’s views in the traditions of political philosophy within the conceptual design of “anti-revolutionary” discourse. Refs 26.