Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism

by Jonathan Beecher

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520222970
• ISBN13: 9780520222977
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"