Consideraciones sobre el profetismo en los escritos de Joseph de Maistre

"The relationship of Joseph de Maistre’s essays with prophetism has been a central theme in the studies dedicated to the author. This article reviews and qualifies this approach by distinguishing within Maistre’s work the theoretical characteristics of the prophetic perspective in three stages of analysis: the writer’s opinions on prophetic vision and prophetic action, the testimonies that singular contemporaries formulated on the prophetic scope of his works and, finally, the consideration of his discourse as a prophetic discourse, both for certain rhetorical features and for its subject matter, centered on the evolution of the proposals of his political prophetism. The research concludes by highlighting that the notion of prophetic impulse is the key to the cohesion of the Maistrinian corpus"