Saint-Simon: A Biography
Publisher
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Payot & Rivages
Parution date
:
2001
EAN
:
9782228894333
Description
Though the Duc de Saint-Simon is known to many, the Count of Saint-Simon, an equally complex and riveting figure, is less so. Qualified as a "utopian socialist" by Marx and Engels, a "new Descartes" by Durkheim and a "social Descartes" by French historians, he was born during the Ancien Régime and fought in the Americas and in the French Revolution. After taking the almost relatively unknown step of renouncing his nobility, he became a trader, adventurer, philosopher whose work set the stage for the arrival of the science of sociology. In Saint-Simon, l’utopie ou la raison en actes, Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau looks at the life of the man both hated and admired, but in no way deserving to be set aside from history, and unveils Saint-Simon’s incredible ambition.
Author
Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau : A history professor at the University of Bretagne-Sud, researcher at the Institut universitaire de France and a specialist in social and economic history, Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau is the author of several distinguished books on the slave trade among which, la traite des Noirs (PUF, 1997).
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