The New World of Henri Saint-Simon

Résumé du livre

"Henri Saint-Simon has been written about far more often than he has been read and understood for his own sake. As Professor Manual points out, slogan-makers for every conceivable modern ideology have invariably claimed Saint-Simon for their very own. His name is inscribed on an obelisk in Moscow as one of the founders of the Communist revolution. And yet the Pereires family, leading French capitalists of the nineteenth century, paid for the edition of his collected works and set aside a fund for perpetual care of his grave. Called at various times a sensualist, a madman, a genius, a fool, an atheist and a religious prophet, Saint-Sion could never be called dull. Not only does he emerge in this graphic portrayal as the exciting man he was in reality, but the fundamental importance of Henri Saint-Simon's thought is provided in compact, orderly fashion for the first time. Professor Manuel makes it clear that Saint-Simon truly had a doctrine, but that it must be sought in works that were published throughout the entire first quarter of the nineteenth century." --