Author: Beecher, Jonathan
Title: Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,584,(30)pp. 30pp photoplates.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Problem of Romantic Socialism; Roots: Franche- Comte & Family; The Making of a Fourierist; Fourierist Leader; Marriage & Politics; Socialism: Journalist & Lecturer; "Social Science"; Among the Early Socialists; Toward a Radical Politics; Revolution: Revolutionary Springtime; Reaction & Renewal; June 13, 1849; Belgian Exile; Texas. Discovering America; A Texas Utopia; Uvalde Canyon; San Antonio Farmer; Return: Under Two Sieges; Ghost of the Latin Quarter; Conclusion: Considerant's Significance. ["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..." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: French Utopian Socialism, Victor Considerant, France, Socialist Politics, Political History, Radicalism, Biography, Nineteenth Century,