Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520222977 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 05 Feb 2001 |
DEWEY: | 335.0092 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 584 |
Weight: | 998g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 225mm |
Spine width: | 46mm |