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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782180603321

Autore

Camcastle Cara <1973->

Titolo

The more moderate side of Joseph de Maistre [[electronic resource] ] : views on political liberty and political economy / / Cara Camcastle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-86383-5

9786612863837

0-7735-7322-4

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 279 p. : ill

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 41

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Economics - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

International relations - Philosophy

Économie politique - Philosophie

Science politique - Philosophie

Relations internationales - Philosophie

Politieke ideeën

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Limited edition of 400 copies.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Maistre's Lodestars: Authority, Equilibrium, and Justice -- Maistre on Inconvertibility, Inflation, and Taxes -- Maistre on Commerce -- The Balance of Power -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Report on the commerce of grain between Carouge and Geneva -- Letter to the King of Piedmont regarding the export of grain -- Regarding paper money in the State of Piedmont -- Memoir on the project for a bank -- Letter to Galleni Napione -- Letter on the Pala case -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre expertly contextualizes his work within the historical events and intellectual debates that emerged in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Camcastle sheds new light on Maistre's conception of government as being made up of groups in dynamic counterbalance and on the system of inconvertible paper money that he developed a century before a similar system was



universally adopted in the twentieth century. Camcastle provides a more complete and balanced picture of Maistre's political writings through original interpretations of his published works and translations from French and Italian into English of previously unpublished writings that substantiate key points.