>butterfly enters on-topic thread about an author whose views she has, at best, only the vaguest sense of
>makes an effortless reply which affirms, I suppose, that she doesn't think de Maistre matters
>nevertheless bumps the thread to farm butthurt replies for obscure (but no doubt pathetic) reasons
OP, I would recommend just buying a reader of French counter-enlightenment/reactionary thought, because they all get at basically the same thing, and a lot of dM's primary stuff is expensive and dense