Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created a growing class of people outside the traditional paternalistic relations of the countryside. Möser's conception of contemporary political and economic trends in Osnabrück was essentialy tragic and tinged with that idealization of the past that would later be called romantic. Möser's heroes were the artisan-citizen and the independent peasant, his villains the shopkeeper and the peddler.

Jerry Z. Muller

Stichwörter: romantic tragic idealization-of-the-past market-economy-as-a-threat

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Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

Ashim Shanker

Stichwörter: self-deception memory rationalization self-betrayal idealization-of-the-past illusion-of-memory template

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