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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808756703321

Autore

Stapelbroek Koen

Titolo

Love, self-deceit, and money : commerce and morality in the early Neapolitan enlightenment / / Koen Stapelbroek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9171-9

1-4426-8853-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

945/.73034

Soggetti

Commerce - Moral and ethical aspects

Enlightenment - Italy - Naples (Kingdom)

History

Electronic books.

Naples (Kingdom) Commerce History 18th century

Naples (Kingdom) Economic conditions 18th century

Naples (Kingdom) Politics and government 1735-1816

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Neapolitan Eighteenth-Century Visions of a Small State in the Modern World -- 1. Commerce, Morality and the Reform of Naples -- 2. Celestino Galiani: The Moral Power of Commerce -- 3. Doria and Vico: True Utility against Pleasure -- 4. Galiani's Moral Philosophy: 'Love' as the Principle of Society -- 5. Della moneta: Commercial Sociability and Monetary Politics -- Epilogue: Galiani and the Limits of the Enlightenment.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Love, Self-Deceit, and Money, Koen Stapelbroek reconstructs the early Neapolitan Enlightenment debate on the morality of market societies, a debate that hinged on the preservation of Naples' independent statehood in a global arena of commercial and military competition. Galiani rejected the opinions of many of his contemporaries regarding the moral and economic dangers threatening Naples, and, in his Della moneta (1751), he justified the systems set in



place by the Neapolitan government. With reference to early, previously unstudied lectures on self-deceptive 'Platonic love, ' Stapelbroek examines Galiani's role in the wider debate, arguing that his early work in moral philosophy and history suggests a great deal about his political-economic stance, including his assertion that money is the ultimate ordering principle in the universe."--Jacket.