Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism - Couverture rigide

Beecher, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520222970 ISBN 13 : 9780520222977

Editeur : University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

Jonathan F. Beecher's accomplished study is both a lively life story of one of the most engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s and a compelling chronicle of early French socialism. Victor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower of the great utopian thinker Charles Fourier, played an important role in the creation of a Fourierist movement and the development of socialist journalism. In the process of conveying a rich understanding of Considerant's life, Beecher traces the rise and fall of French romantic socialism and demonstrates how the utopian visions of thinkers such as Charles Fourier came to inspire a whole generation of young radicals and reformers not only in France but also in Dostoevky's Russia and in the America of Horace Greeley and Margaret Fuller. He paints a vivid portrait of a particularly important period of European intellectual history and gives his readers insight into the experience of a generation of thinkers and political activists. This comprehensive history will become the definitive work on Victor Considerant, and-along with Beecher's classic study of Fourier-a major contribution to the history of French socialism in the nineteenth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan F. Beecher is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World (California, 1986) and The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier: Selected Texts on Work, Love, and Passionate Attraction (1971).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520222970
• ISBN 13: 9780520222977
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible