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Photo ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

Charles Fourier et sa sociologie sociétaire. 

Paris, Librairie Marcel Riviére, 1911.
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First edition.
Jean-Adolphe Alhaiza is a French essayist, disciple of Charles Fourier and the Societary School. Exposition of the doctrine of Charles Fourier.
"This succinct, but very accurate work, also contains an absolutely unpublished historical summary of the Societary School, from Fourier to the present day." (p.7).

Photo ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY. 

ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY. 

Essai sur le Beau Avec un Discours Préliminaire et des Réflexions sur le Goût par M. Formey. 

Amsterdam, J.H.Schneider, 1767.
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Yves-Marie André (1674-1765) was a Jesuit priest, philosopher and in charge of a chair of mathematics in Caen.

Photo BARBEYRAC, Jean. 

BARBEYRAC, Jean. 

Traité du jeu, où l'on examine les principales questions de droit naturel et de morale qui ont du rapport à cette
matière. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1709.
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Philosophical dissertation around the game, its dangers and its abuses all the moral, economic and social facets related to the practice of games are discussed. Barbeyrac writes at a key moment when the notion of chance (behind which hides divine intervention) gradually gives way to what will become a theory of games and probabilities.

Photo BARRIER, François || JOURNET, Jean. 

BARRIER, François || JOURNET, Jean. 

Mélanges d'écrits Fouriéristes. 

s.l., s.n., 1836-1850.
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Fourteen pieces by two prominent members of Fourierist circles: François Barrier and Jean Journet.
The set was probably assembled by François Barrier. Two presentation copie. one from Barrier to his mother and one from Jean Journet to Barrier.
François Barrier (1813-1870), a doctor in Lyon, converted to Fourierism in the early 1840s. He played a very important role in the founding of a societarian colony in Saint-Denis du Sig, Algeria. He was part of the organizing committee that set the project in motion and was one of the administrators of the society of the Agricultural Union of Africa. He was the main driving force and financial supporter of the Ecole sociétaire de Lyon in the 1850s. He created a "Fourierist" bank that notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris and reorganize the Ecole sociétaire, run the societarian bookstore and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

- [BARRIER], Examen et Réfutation du Discours de M. Massot, Lyon, Dorier, 1846 62 pages. First edition. Work in which Barrier defends the societary doctrine.

- Commemorative banquet of the birth of Ch. Fourier, Given in Lyon on April 7, 1846 (2 bl.) - 16 pages. First edition. The Fourierists, after the death of Charles Fourier in 1837, adopted the practice of Republican Banquets and met each year to celebrate the anniversary of his birth (April 7, 1772) with a banquet. In Paris, in the provinces, abroad, many banquets were thus organized, during which the speakers took turns to praise the social theories of the master and to make many toasts. Here a handwritten note (p.9) attributes one of the "toasts" to François Barrier. - BARRIER, De L'Hygiène dans ses rapports avec l'état social, (March 15, 1845) 15 pages. Article taken from the Revue sociale, a socialist review from Lyon.

- BARRIER, De L'Hygiène dans ses rapports avec l'état social, (15 mars 1845). 15 pages.
pappers from the Revue sociale, socialist review of Lyon.

- BARRIER, Sketch of an analogy of Man and Humanity, Lyon, Librairie sociétaire, 1846. 48 pages. First edition. Handwritten dedication from François Barrier to his mother on the half-title page. Work that exegetes certain points of Fourierist doctrine.

- The Agricultural Union of... Civil joint-stock company for the exploitation of a rural property in Africa, Lyon, Boitel, [1845]. 16 pages. First edition. Work of the organizing committee of which François Barrier was a member, from its formation until October 25, 1845. The end of the document gives the model of the power of attorney to be sent to subscribers for the founding of the company.

- Draft Statutes of a civil company, for the exploitation of a rural property in Algeria, Lyon, Dumoulin, 1845. 23-(1) pages First edition. One of the first documents relating to the Union. He presents the draft statutes of the society before its foundation, which would not take place until the end of 1845. The document also presents the members of the organizing committee (including François Barrier) and the list of the first subscribers.

- [BARRIER], The Agricultural Union of Africa, new system of colonization of Algeria, Lyon, Au Siège de la Société, 1846. viii-136-(2bl.) pages and 2 folding plates. First edition. Work in which François Barrier presents the phalansterian project of the Agricultural Union of Africa. In 1846, if the civil society leading the Union had been created, it had not yet obtained a concession from Louis Philippe. The Fourierists' project came at a time when the French State, after having conquered Algeria, was asking itself the question of a settlement colonization to make its military expenditure profitable.

Works of Jean Journet:

Jean Journet (1799-1861) defined himself as a Fourierist apostle. He traveled through France, Belgium, and also Texas to spread the good word of Charles Fourier. A friend of the painter Gustave Courbet, he was immortalized in a painting entitled "The Apostle Jean Journet leaving for the conquest of universal harmony" in 1850. An eccentric character, he aroused the anger of the Fourierists who, like Victor Considérant, wanted to normalize the movement. He had books and brochures printed at his own expense, from 1840 until his death in 1861, imbued with mysticism, apostolic lyricism, and extravagance. Lacking sales in bookstores, Journet became a street vendor of his works. There, he begged for his bread and took on the shaggy appearance of an enlightened preacher.

- JOURNET, Cri d'indignation, complainte humanitaire, Paris, Charpentier, September 1846. 16 pages. First edition. Long poem whose incipit is addressed to the "lazy", the "gangrenous disciples" who indulge in a "voluptuous drowsiness" while waiting for Harmony.

- JOURNET, Cri de Délivrance. Intronisation du règne harmonien sur le globe, Paris, Charpentier, November 1846. 16-(2) pages. Sent by the author to François Barrier. First edition. Journet opens a subscription for the creation of a Phalanstère d'enfants, one of his major projects. At the top of the list of subscribers is Alexandre Dumas, to whom Journet dedicates a poem.

- JOURNET, Résurrection sociale. Félicité universelle, cri de Détresse, Paris, Chez The author, June 1849. 16 pages. First edition. Text that encourages Fourier's disciples to get moving and practically realize a phalanstery. Note that the price of the brochure, indicated on the title, is 5fr. for the rich, 1fr. for the well-off and 15 centimes in shops.

- [JOURNET], To the founders of Universal Harmony, the grateful human race, [1850] 16 pages. Second edition. Subscribers and statutes of the Society of Active Fraternity, an "experimental association" that provides for the installation of a "swarm of devoted men, the seed of a future harmonious phalanx", placed "one to five leagues from the capital", with initially 18 to 25 households. But Journet's project does not seem to have gone any further.

- JOURNET, Socialism Unmasked: Cry of Pity, The False Prophets, Paris, Chez tous les marchands, June 1850. 16 pages. Original edition. Long poem in the form of a diatribe against Proudhon. It opens with this stanza: "Proudhon, Proudhon, It is a song That will make sense Of your jargon."

- JOURNET, Socialism Unmasked: Cry of Alarm, The Promised Land, Paris, Chez tous les marchands, July 1850. 16 pages. Original edition. Poem whose target is undoubtedly Emile de Girardin, who supported the party of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte under the Second Republic.

- JOURNET, The Year of Salvation or the solution of solutions, by a madman, a beggar, an apostle, Paris, Chez tous les marchands de nouveautés, February 1851. 16 pages. Original edition. Journet still feels alone among the Fourierists in wanting the practical advent of Charles Fourier's utopia. One also senses the disappointment of the hope raised by the Republic of 1848, while the idea of ​​a Second Empire gradually makes its way.

Photo [BAUDET-DULARY, Alexandre]. 

[BAUDET-DULARY, Alexandre]. 

Colonie Sociétaire de Condé-Sur-Vesgre. 

Paris, Au Bureau de la réforme industrielle, 1832.
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First edition.
Rare document on the creation of the colony of Condé-sur-Vesgre.

The societary colony of Condé-sur-Vesgre was the first Fourierist achievement and the only one in which Fourier participated. The initiative was launched in the second half of 1832 by Alexandre Baudet-Dulary with the support of the Fourierist newspaper "Le Phalanstère" which would relay the calls for funds.

Our publication presents the project for the creation of the society that would manage the colony. It presents the statutes of the future society and an approximate estimate of the expenses. The designated managers are Devay, Just Muiron, Victor Considérant, and A. Transon. The role assigned to Charles Fourier is "director of the societary mechanism".

This society will be created during the year 1833 with the installation of the first settlers on the site of Condé-sur-Vesgre. The colony, after many difficulties, is still in activity almost two hundred years later.

Photo BERBRUGGER, Adrien. 

BERBRUGGER, Adrien. 

Conférences sur la théorie sociétaire de Charles Fourier. 

Lyon, Babeuf, Décembre 1833.
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Adrien Berbrugger (1801-1869), is a French archaeologist and philologist. He remained famous for being a fine connoisseur of Algeria. Convinced by Fourierist ideas in the early 1830s, he gave several public lectures to preach the good word of Charles Fourier.

Bound after, eleven other rare Fourierist brochures:

- GILLIOT, Quelques aperçus sur une théorie de nos sentiments moraux en réponse à la neuvième question. Strasbourg, Derivaux, 1842. 24 pages and 1 folding plate
- ESQUIROS, De la Vie future au point de vue socialiste. Paris, Librairie phalanstérienne, 1850. 144 pages.
- PELLARIN, Allocutions d'un socialiste. Paris, Capelle, 1846. 48 pages.
- PELLARIN, Responsabilité individuelle. Paris, Capelle, 1847. 15 pages. Presentation copy to François Barrier
Envoi de l'auteur au Dr Barrier
- MANDET, Contre-critique avec exposition de principes. Paris, Librairie sociétaire, [v.1847]. 75 pages.
- MUIRON, Science sociale. Besançon, Ch. Deis, 1842. 8 pages.
- [IMBERT], Le Dr. Ombros à M. Victor Considérant, lettre d'un disciple de Gall à un disciple de Fourier. Lyon, Rossary, 1835. 23 pages.
- Banquet donné à Saint-Etienne en commémoration de la naissance de Fourier. Saint-Etienne, Théolier ainé, 1845. 15 pages and 1 engraving.
- Banquet donné à Saint-Etienne en commémoration de la naissance de Fourier. Saint-Etienne, Théolier ainé, 1846. 15 pages.
- Banquet donné à Clermont en commémoration de la naissance de Fourier,. Clermont-Ferrand, Perol, 1846. 16 pages.
- Banquet commémoratif de la naissance de Charles Fourier donné à Clermont le 7 avril 1847. Clermont-Ferrand, Perol, 1847. 23 pages.
23 pages.

Photo BESSE, Pierre de. 

BESSE, Pierre de. 

L' Héraclite chrestien c'est a dire les regrets & les larmes du pêcheur penitent. 

Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1612.
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Pierre de Besse, preacher from the beginning of the 17th century was inspired by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, whose legend, peddled by Diogenes Laerce, said that he was perpetually in tears in front of the fate of men to draw from it a Christian Heraclitus desperate for the sins of the Men.
He will publish 3 years later the "Christian Democrite" showing a hilarious Democrite in front of the world as it is.

These two books did a lot to popularize the archetypes of a weeping Heraclitus and a laughing Democritus, which can be found in many works of art throughout the 17th century. One thinks in particular of the "Weeping Philosopher" of Rubens painted around 1636, or the Democrites of Velasquez and Rembrandt.

Engravings by Leonard Gaultier, famous french painter.

Photo [BLANCHET, Jean]. 

[BLANCHET, Jean]. 

L'Homme éclairé par ses besoins. 

Paris, Durand, 1764.
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The work of a philosopher who was won over to the ideas of the Lumières, Blanchet is resolutely modern: the 18th century is marked by the reign of science and the arts, and the passions of modern man are the subject of vibrant praise, including self-esteem, because it is they which allow the realization of the great projects of humanity, which a Diderot would not deny.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire et critique de la révolution cartésienne. 

Lyon, Boitel, 1842.
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150 €

First edition.
Francisque Bouillier (1813-1899) was a French philosopher known above all for his studies on Cartesianism.

Photo BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

BOUILLIER, Francisque. 

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne. 

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.
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Third edition.

Photo BOURDET, Eugène. 

BOURDET, Eugène. 

Vocabulaire Des Principaux Termes de La Philosophie Positive: Avec Notices Biographiques Appartenant Au Calendrier Positiviste. 

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1875.
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100 €

First edition.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the positivism of Auguste Comte gradually transformed into a true religion "of humanity" which rethought all the rites and structures left by the Christian church. These mutations are accompanied by a new vocabulary that Eugène Bourdet presents to us.

Photo CABET, Etienne. 

CABET, Etienne. 

Voyage en Icarie. 

Paris, Au Bureau du populaire, 1848.
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Fifth edition.
Major work by Cabet in which he describes his socialist utopia.
Etienne Cabet places himself alongside Charles Fourier or Robert Owen among the promoters of alternative social projects. Cabet is the first philosopher to describe himself as a communist.
In 1849, Cabet went to the United States to try to found an Icarian community there.

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

Photo CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. 

CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph. 

Les Socialistes peints par eux-mêmes. 

Besançon, Imprimerie de J. Jacquin, [1848].
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First edition.
Publication, probably by the Fourierist circles of Besançon, of the public correspondence between Victor Considerant and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who were then in full conflict in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution.

Photo [COURTOIS, Jacques]. 

[COURTOIS, Jacques]. 

L'Espoir est pour demain. 

Granville, Imprimerie granvillaise, 1950.
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First edition.
Book with subtitle: "Essay on existence: from the Universe to Man". Vast program of a philosophy of Nature and History.
Written under his pseudonym : J-A Tregastel.
Handwritten sending to Jacques Duboin (1878-1976) French economist and politician.

Photo COUSIN, Victor. 

COUSIN, Victor. 

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne. 

Paris, Charpentier, 1845.
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This book by Victor Cousin (1792-1867) consists in several texts dealing with Cartesian Philosophy, as well as letters between Malebranche and Mairan, and between Malebranche and Leibnitz (unpublished).
Victor Cousin is a French philosopher, leader of the "École Éclectique". He edited the works of Descartes, translated Plato and Proclus, wrote a "Histoire de la philosophie au XVIIIème siècle" in 1829, "Du Vrai, du Beau et du Bien" in 1853, and several monographs on famous women of the seventeenth century.
He is considered in France as the founder of the tradition of history studies of Philosophy and the reformer of philosophical teaching in high schools.

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COUSIN, Victor. 

Cours de philosophie.
Introduction à l'histoire de la philosophie. 

Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828.
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D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond. 

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie. 

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain et fils, 1773.
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New edition.
Compilation of D'Alembert's text begun in the midst of the Encyclopédie crisis and during the years when its publication was banned. He constantly refers to it and publishes some of the articles there. D'Alembert also fuels, through these texts, the controversy with Rousseau on the status of Literature.

Photo DAIN, Charles || FOURIER, Charles. 

DAIN, Charles || FOURIER, Charles. 

De l'Abolition de l'Esclavage suivi d'un article de Fourier. 

Paris, Au bureau de la Phalange, 1836.
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First edition.
Offprint from the magazine La Phalange.
The text by Charles Dain is followed by the article Remède aux divers esclavages by Charles Fourier.
Of Guadeloupean origin, Charles Dain (1812-1871) led the campaign for the abolition of slavery, although he himself was a slave owner. He sat in the Constituent Assembly in 1848.

Charles Dain's work is bound second to last, along with 4 other brochures:
- RICHARDSON, Essai sur le mal ou le péché, Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1840. (4)-133-(1) pages. First edition in french.
- [CONSIDERANT], Théorie générale de Fourier : Coup d'œil sur la théorie des fonctions, Lyon, [Nourtier], [1841]. 16 pages (without the original printed covers wich was also the title page).
- CANTAGREL, Mettray et Ostwald. Etude sur ces deux colonies agricoles, Paris, Librairie de l'école sociétaire, 1842. 65 pages.First edition
-BERBRUGGER, Conférences sur la Théorie sociétaire de Charles Fourier en septembre 1833. Lyon, Babeuf, 1833. 105 pages. First edition.

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DE BEAUVOIR, Simone. 

La Force des choses. 

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.
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First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

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DESCARTES, René. 

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora. 

Amsterdam, Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1644.
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First latin edition of the Discours de la Méthode.

Milestone in the history of science which marked an epistemological rupture.
The Latin translation of the Discourse on the Method was first undertaken by Etienne de Courcelles but Descartes revised it, modified it and introduced variants compared to the French text of 1637. We find there for the first time the phrase (page 31) : "cogito, ergo sum".
The scientific texts following the Discourse are illustrated with numerous woods in the text.

Photo DUPREEL, Eugène. 

DUPREEL, Eugène. 

Les Sophistes: Protogoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias. 

Neuchatel, Editions du Griffon, 1948.
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EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE. 

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens, ou nouvelle apologie pour Socrate. 

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1773.
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First edition in French.
Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant.

Photo [ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François-Ignace]. 

[ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François-Ignace]. 

L'Esprit des nations. 

La Haye, Isaac Beauregard, 1753.
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Third edition.

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FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

L'Education des filles. 

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1885.
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Introduction by Octave Gréard and frontispiece by Lalauze.

Photo FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe. 

Abrégé de la vie des plus illustres philosophes de l'antiquité. 

Limoges, Barbou frères, 1846.
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Synthetic presentation of the main philosophers of antiquity and their philosophies.

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FOURIER, Charles. 

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte. 

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.
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First edition.
Founding work of Fourierism. It is in this book that Charles Fourier sets out for the first time his theories on the organization of human societies. Discoveries, which, according to him, is on a par with Newton's theory of gravitation. They must lead Humanity to a state of universal Harmony.

Some handwritten corrections.

Bound with is a rare brochure by Fourier:

[FOURIER], Mnémonique géographique ou méthode pour apprendre en peu de leçons la géographie, la statistique et la politique. Paris, Impr. Carpentier-Méricourt, [1824]. 15-(1) pages.
"Brand-new views on the teaching of one of the positive sciences, formerly cultivated, that Fourier was most fond of. The procedures he indicates, and particularly that of the Theory of Causes in Creation, are related to his system of Universal Unity. This piece is very curious. " (notice from the 'catalogue raisonné de l'école sociétaire', 1842).

Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

Traité de l'association domestique-agricole (T1) (+) Sommaire du traité de l'association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. 

Bossange, Paris, 1822.
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First edition.
Copy signed by the author.
This treatise was intended, in the author's mind, to replace his theory of the four movements, the publication of which had met with little success.
He describes in a more practical way the phase of Harmony, in fact, it is the Rule (in the monastic sense) of his Phalanstery. Man is total there: cultivating his vegetable garden in the morning, composing poems in the afternoon, craftsman in the evening. Life is very finely regulated there: constant activity, dietetics (which he calls Gastrosophy), sexuality. Among the Fourierists, the union is free, each lustful preference accepted, but taxonomic passion of the moment, each sexual taste is classified, subdivided, organized... Fourier thus defines seventy-six types of cuckolding...
With the Supplement to the foreword paginated LXV-LXXX which is found in few copies.

Bound after, the rare "Sommaire" :
[FOURIER, Charles]. Sommaire du traité de l'association domestique-agricole ou attraction industrielle. Paris, Bossange, 1823. 16-[1329-1448] pages. Bound without the first (instruction pour le vendeur ...) and last (appendice aux conclusions) leaves, as well as leaves B8-8E found in some copies between pages 8 and 9.

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FOURIER, Charles. 

La Fausse industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle, combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit. 

Paris, Bossange, 1835.
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First edition.
The last and most enigmatic of Charles Fourier's books. First volume (on 2) only.
Fourierist exegetes see the beginnings of a planetary ecology, Fourier inventing a practical ecosophy source of wealth and abundance.
Like pagination, the speech is often disjointed, linking demonstrations and free discussions moving from one subject to another.

Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

La Fausse industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle, combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit. 

Paris, Bossange, 1835-1836.
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First edition.
The last and most enigmatic of Charles Fourier's books.
Fourierist exegetes see the beginnings of a planetary ecology, Fourier inventing a practical ecosophy source of wealth and abundance.
Like pagination, the speech is often disjointed, linking demonstrations and free discussions moving from one subject to another.

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

Théorie des Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinées Générales. Prospectus et Annonce de la Découverte. 

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.
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First edition.
Founding work of Fourierism.
It is in this book that Charles Fourier sets out for the first time his theories on the organization of human societies. Discoveries, which, according to him, is on a par with Newton's theory of gravitation. Fourier defines four phases of universal history (ascending chaos, ascending plenitude, descending plenitude, descending chaos), each phase subdivided into a multitude of times. Humanity is currently going through the fifth time of the first phase: Civilization. The revelation to humanity of "passionate attraction" will bring about Harmony, a phase of bliss in which Fourier's Utopia is realized.
When it was published, no one understood anything about this work, riddled with neologisms, divisions and subdivisions, extravagant considerations... the press passed over the book in silence and Fourier, annoyed that he was not recognized as a Genius, would not publish again for fourteen years.

Rare untouched copy.

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