MAFFEY (Aldo) – IL PENSIERO POLITICO DEL MABLY, Pubblicazioni dell'istituto di scienze politiche dell'università di Torino, vol. XIX
MAFFEY (Aldo) – IL PENSIERO POLITICO DEL MABLY, Pubblicazioni dell'istituto di scienze politiche dell'università di Torino, vol. XIX
    MAFFEY (Aldo)
    IL PENSIERO POLITICO DEL MABLY, Pubblicazioni dell'istituto di scienze politiche dell'università di Torino, vol. XIX
Édition :
    Turin
Date :
    1968
    octavo, paperback, uncut, (cover slightly soiled), interior very fresh, 249 p.
    “A. Maffey aims to present a systematic exposition of Mably’s authentic thought. His book begins and ends with well-developed and well-documented biographical (chapter 1) and bibliographical (appendix) material (despite the typographical errors that distort the numerous French texts cited). To compile the bibliography, he consulted many unpublished texts, both at the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Rouen Municipal Library. The published works are described with care. Maffey seeks to demonstrate that Mably is not the revolutionary thinker portrayed by traditional historiographies, whether “bourgeois” or Marxist-inspired. To this end, he focuses less on Mably’s work itself than on the image his contemporaries, and especially (chapter 2) the men of the Revolution, formed of him. Mably’s political legacy is to be found among the Girondins and even the Thermidorians. It is Mably’s reformism that appears to have shaped his political legacy.” “Politics, like morality, also avoids all excesses”: this phrase by Mably, quoted on p. 121, is said to be the fundamental maxim of his system. And the account that AM offers of Mably’s European policy (chapters IV and V) seems to bear him out: original ideas, new projects, but overall great caution. We find this caution again (chapter VII) in Mably’s refutation of utopia; faced with the Physiocrats, while maintaining his theses on the origin of private property, Mably refrains from calling for its abolition: “political writings will not change the face of the world” (Works, London 1769, vol. V, p. 471). (J.-R. Armogathe, Dix-Huitième Siècle, no. 4/1972, p. 422).

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Mots-clés : Philosophy of Law, Political Science

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