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GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da.

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux.

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.

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600 €

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Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

GAGNEUR, Marie-Louise.

Le Droit au bonheur : Charles Fourier, d’après Zola et Jaurès.

Paris, Dentu, 1901.

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Louise Marie Gagneur (1832-1902) was a French writer and feminist activist.
Essay inspired by the publication of Travail by Emile Zola. Gagneur celebrates Zola's novel, which highlights Fourierist ideas "with a power of eloquence, a depth, a philosophical scope, a mastery that make this incomparable book a glorious and victorious stage in our literary, philosophical and social movement" (p. 12).

Marie-Louise Gagneur believed in the transformative power of the intellectual production to which she contributed: "The transformation can therefore occur today without shock, without revolution, by the FORCE OF THE IDEA alone" (Droit au bonheur, p. 12).

[FOURIERISME].

Le Phalanstère en Algérie : Banquet du 7 avril 1848. Journée électorale du 9 avril. Plan d'organisation du travail.

Alger, Imprimerie de A. Bourget, 1848.

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This booklet provides a record of the commemorative banquet held in Algiers on April 7, 1848, to honor the memory of Fourier. Organized by the leading members of the Sig colony and chaired by administrator Jules Duval, the event featured speeches from various prominent figures. Subsequent sections detail the events of April 9th, election day, when Algiers' Fourierists deliberated on the statutes of a Phalansterian circle aimed at uniting them and selecting a representative for the National Assembly. The booklet concludes with an extensive treatise on the organization of labor within the Agricultural Union and the colony's governing statutes.

[FOURIERISME].

Catalogue raisonné des publications de l'École sociétaire.

Paris, Paul Renouard, [1842].

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150 €

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During the 1840s, Fourierists led by Victor Considerant engaged in extensive written propaganda, especially through the Society for the Propagation and Realization of Fourier's Theory, aiming to inspire individuals to initiate or fund experiments in communal living. The Sociétaire Bookstore in Paris produced a vast amount of literature. Catalogs detailing their publications with summaries were frequently released, often accompanying other works. The 1842 catalog serves as an illustration.

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Le Sept Avril à Besançon.

Besançon, J. Bonvalot, 1847.

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The political banquet was born during the French Revolution. In 1789, in all cities of France, the open-air banquet, in the streets, was a new form of sociability to affirm patriotic enthusiasm and the unity of the Nation. During these civic meals, new liberties were celebrated.

Under the reign of Louis-Philippe, the political banquet was reborn as a means of circumventing the ban on political gatherings imposed by the reactionary government of Minister Guizot.

Fourierists, after the death of Charles Fourier in 1837, adopted this practice and met each year to celebrate his birthday (April 7, 1772) with a banquet. In Paris, in the provinces, and abroad, numerous banquets were thus organized, during which speakers took turns extolling the social theories of their master and proposing many toasts.

In 1847 and 1848, this subversive function of the banquet spread to all political factions and gained momentum. In February 1848, the prefect of police in Paris banned a banquet. Following this ban, a protest demonstration turned into an insurrection within a few days, bringing an end to the July Monarchy.

This account of the Besançon banquet in 1847 includes toasts by Just Muiron: "To the genius of Fourier!", Ledoux: "To the organization of labor!", Renaud: "To the confusion of false wisdom!", Vuillemin: "To all the benefactors of humanity!".

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M. Victor Considérant et l'École de Fourier.

Reims, L. Jacquet, 1846.

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Rare offprint of an article published in the journal Champagne catholique.
This journal was created at the end of the July Monarchy to defend moral and religious interests against the anticlerical political groups that were beginning to organize. Here the article targets Fourier's system, of which Victor Considérant was then the best-known promoter.
"His ideas of association are destined, without doubt, to play an important role in the future developments of civilization; we must deplore that Fourier has cast disfavor on them, by associating them with the deepest immorality." (p.35).

FOURIER, Charles.

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

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.

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3500 €

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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.

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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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.

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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1500 €

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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.

FOURIER, Charles.

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

Leipzig [Lyon], [Pelzin], 1808.

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2000 €

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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).

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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750 €

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.

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.

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe.

L'Education des filles.

Paris, Jouaust librairie des bibliophiles, 1885.

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75 €

Introduction by Octave Gréard and frontispiece by Lalauze.

[ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François-Ignace].

L'Esprit des nations.

La Haye, Isaac Beauregard, 1753.

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100 €

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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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125 €

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.

DUPREEL, Eugène.

Les Sophistes: Protogoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias.

Neuchatel, Editions du Griffon, 1948.

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50 €

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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.

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

La Force des choses.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.

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50 €

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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”.

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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750 €

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.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond.

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie.

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain et fils, 1773.

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300 €

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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.

COUSIN, Victor.

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

Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828.

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COUSIN, Victor.

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne.

Paris, Charpentier, 1845.

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100 €

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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.

[COURTOIS, Jacques].

L'Espoir est pour demain.

Granville, Imprimerie granvillaise, 1950.

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90 €

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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.

CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph.

Les Socialistes peints par eux-mêmes.

Besançon, Imprimerie de J. Jacquin, [1848].

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300 €

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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.

CABET, Etienne.

Voyage en Icarie.

Paris, Au Bureau du populaire, 1848.

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350 €

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.

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 €

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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.

BOUILLIER, Francisque.

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne.

Paris, Ch. Delagrave et Cie, 1868.

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80 €

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BOUILLIER, Francisque.

Histoire et critique de la révolution cartésienne.

Lyon, Boitel, 1842.

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

[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.

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.

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Philosophy

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da.

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux.

GAGNEUR, Marie-Louise.

Le Droit au bonheur : Charles Fourier, d’après Zola et Jaurès.

[FOURIERISME].

Le Phalanstère en Algérie : Banquet du 7 avril 1848. Journée électorale du 9 avril. Plan d'organisation du travail.

[FOURIERISME].

Catalogue raisonné des publications de l'École sociétaire.

[FOURIERISME].

Le Sept Avril à Besançon.

[FOURIERISME].

M. Victor Considérant et l'École de Fourier.

FOURIER, Charles.

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

FOURIER, Charles.

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

FOURIER, Charles.

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

FOURIER, Charles.

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

FOURIER, Charles.

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

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe.

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

Synthetic presentation of the main philosophers of antiquity and their philosophies.

FENELON, François Salignac de la Mothe.

L'Education des filles.

Introduction by Octave Gréard and frontispiece by Lalauze.

[ESPIARD DE LA BORDE, François-Ignace].

L'Esprit des nations.

Third edition.

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE.

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

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.

DUPREEL, Eugène.

Les Sophistes: Protogoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias.

First edition.

DESCARTES, René.

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

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

La Force des choses.

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”.

DAIN, Charles || FOURIER, Charles.

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

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond.

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie.

COUSIN, Victor.

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

First edition.

COUSIN, Victor.

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne.

[COURTOIS, Jacques].

L'Espoir est pour demain.

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.

CONSIDERANT, Victor || PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph.

Les Socialistes peints par eux-mêmes.

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.

CABET, Etienne.

Voyage en Icarie.

BOURDET, Eugène.

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

BOUILLIER, Francisque.

Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne.

Third edition.

BOUILLIER, Francisque.

Histoire et critique de la révolution cartésienne.

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

[BLANCHET, Jean].

L'Homme éclairé par ses besoins.

BESSE, Pierre de.

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

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.

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”.

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

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.

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.

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