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Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825) - Selected writings on science, industry and social organisation (Hardcover)
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Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825) - Selected writings on science, industry and social organisation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
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Keith Taylor has undertaken a thorough study of the full range of
writings by the brilliant French thinker Henri Saint-Simon
(1760-1825), including his unpublished manuscripts, and the result
is the first comprehensive and truly representative selection in
English from the works of this founding father of social science
and socialism, whose ideas exerted a formative influence on such
major and diverse intellectual figures as Comte, Proudhon, Marx and
Engels, Herzen, Carlyle and Durkheim. When Saint-Simon's writings
first appeared, they aroused little more than amusement and
curiosity. The ideas they contained - ideas concerning the
application of scientific method to the study of man and society,
the coming of the new 'scientific-industrial' age in which the
State would assume responsibility for promoting social welfare, the
prospects for international cooperation and integration in Europe,
man's need for a secular religion - were widely dismissed. But the
boldness and originality of Saint-Simon's work had a lasting impact
on subsequent thinkers and played a major role in the development
of European social thought throughout the nineteenth and into the
twentieth centuries. Keith Taylor's introductory essay places
Saint-Simon's writings in their proper historical context, offers a
penetrating reassessment of their significance as a contribution to
social theory, and considers the extent of their influence on
modern thought. It indicates the inadequacies of many previous
interpretations of Saint-Simon's thinking, and highlights, in
particular, the tendency of most recent commentators to disregard
some crucial features of his political philosophy. This selection
is an essential insight into a modern understanding of Saint-Simon
from a young English scholar. Nowhere else in English may be found
so wide-ranging a selection from Saint-Simon's writings presenting
such a balanced view of his thought.
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