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The more moderate side of Joseph de Maistre : views on political liberty and political economy / Cara Camcastle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 41.Publication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [(c)2005.]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 279 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773573222
  • 0773573224
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B2331.274
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Contents:
I. Maistre's lodestars : authority, equilibrium, and justice -- II. Maistre on inconvertibility, inflation, and taxes -- III. Maistre on commerce -- IV. The balance of power -- App. 1. Report on the commerce in grain between Carouge and Geneva -- App. 2. Letter to the King of Piedmont regarding the export of grain -- App. 3. Regarding paper money in the state of Piedmont -- App. 4. Memoir on the project for a bank -- App. 5. Letter to Galleani Napione -- App. 6. Letter on the Pala case.
Review: "The More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre expertly contextualizes the work of de Maistre 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original interpretations of his published works and translations from French and Italian into English of previously unpublished writings that substantiate key points."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Maistre's lodestars : authority, equilibrium, and justice -- II. Maistre on inconvertibility, inflation, and taxes -- III. Maistre on commerce -- IV. The balance of power -- App. 1. Report on the commerce in grain between Carouge and Geneva -- App. 2. Letter to the King of Piedmont regarding the export of grain -- App. 3. Regarding paper money in the state of Piedmont -- App. 4. Memoir on the project for a bank -- App. 5. Letter to Galleani Napione -- App. 6. Letter on the Pala case.

"The More Moderate Side of Joseph de Maistre expertly contextualizes the work of de Maistre 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."--Jacket.

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