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Title

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

Author

Camcastle, Cara, 1973-

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xvi, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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original interpretations of his published works and translations from French and Italian into English of previously unpublished writings that substantiate key points."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subject

• Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821 > Criticism and interpretation
• Maistre, Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821 > Political and social views
• Maistre, Joseph, comte de, 1753-1821 > Critique et interprétation
• Maistre, Joseph, comte de, 1753-1821 > Pensée politique et sociale
• Economics > Philosophy
• Political science > Philosophy
• International relations > Philosophy
• Économie politique > Philosophie
• Science politique > Philosophie
• Relations internationales > Philosophie

Note

• Limited edition of 400 copies.

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

ISBN

0773529764 (bound) :

LCCN

9780773529762

OCLC

• ocm61128074
• SCSB-5230686

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries