FOURIER (Charles). The New Industrial and Corporate World or - Lot 57

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FOURIER (Charles). The New Industrial and Corporate World or - Lot 57
FOURIER (Charles). The New Industrial and Corporate World or Invention of the attractive and natural industrial process distributed in passionate series. Paris, Bossange père, P. Mongie l'aîné, 1829. - LECHEVALIER (Jules). Studies on social science. Year 1832. Theory of Charles Fourier. Paris, Eugène Renduel, 1834. Set of 2 books in 2 volumes in-8, bradel cartonnage marbled paper, smooth spine decorated with gilt filets, black title piece, yellow edges (Binding at the time). Del Bo, p. 6. - Versins, Utopia, p. 343. Original edition of one of the main works of Charles Fourier (1772-1837), founder and theorist of one of the great socialist utopias. Fourier, whose project was to create a new humanity, governed, like the universe, by the laws of association and harmony (Eugène Buret) gives here a summary of his entire doctrine. It is a systematic critique of civilization and its intrinsic deviations (individualism, global exploitation of resources for the benefit of the most powerful, liberal capitalism based on the law of the strongest and of parasites) and the possible project of another society determined by the principle of mutual association, no longer governed by constraints and repression but according to the true motor (the only real one) of passionate attraction (the principle of motivation). Fourier paints an immense anthropological picture (long before psycho-sociologists) of the various human passions, all useful without exclusive (presentation by the publisher, Presses du Réel, of the 2001 reprint). Note, p. 146, the full-page plan of the phalanstery as conceived by the author. Without the 88-page announcement booklet and the 2 errata leaves, which are missing from most copies. Jules Lechevalier (1806-1862), a former Saint-Simonian turned Fourierist, was the first popularizer of Fourier's theory. His work, here in its original edition (cf. Einaudi, n°3285 and Goldsmiths, n°28870), presents Fourier's work, sets out
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