Burke y De Maistre: dos respuestas conservadoras a la Revolución francesa

Abstract

The French Revolution profoundly altered European life, and its influence quickly reached America. Positions that opposed its ideological and political postulates arose very soon against it. Two of these positions attract attention: that of Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre. Both reactions severely question the Revolution from a conservative perspective but took different paths. The former will give rise to a possibilistic and procedural conservatism, compatible with liberalism; while the latter will initiate a counterrevolutionary and maximalist conservative tradition that will drift towards integralism.