De Maistre fused rationalist-politics critique with celebration of revolutionary victims’ suffering.

Evidence

An instructive thinker to consider in this respect is Joseph de Maistre, who combined a strong feeling for the absurdity of rationalist politics and for the massive role of the heteronomy of ends within political experience with a powerful utilitarian critique of the actual consequences of rationalist politics in revolutionary France and a gleeful providentialist celebration of the extent to which the victims of revolutionary violence on all sides had it coming to them (Maistre 1964). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1132

Categorization

• XREF: De Maistre’s rejection that trust matters for politics is a direct counter-position to the reader’s Hardin/Luhmann framing—useful as a stalking horse for why trust-based monitoring is needed at all.
• SHARE: A friend who reads conservative political theory would enjoy the de Maistre portrait—rationalist critique welded to providentialist victim-blaming.