SAINT-SIMON (Henri Comte de).

Henri Comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825). Selected Writings. Edited and Translated with an Introduction by F.M.H. Markham.

First edition. Small 8vo. xlix, 116 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (a few instances of occasional neat pencilled underlining and marginal highlighting, the contents otherwise remain quite fresh; spine panel of jacket only slightly toned, withal a near fine copy). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1952.

£150.00

A collection bringing together extracts from the principal economic writings of Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) in English translation, with a substantial introductory essay by the editor Felix Markham.

‘Saint-Simon believed that the study of society should be conducted on a scientific basis; that a positive, empirical science of society was both necessary and possible. Society, he argued, was like an organism governed by natural laws; and a ‘healthy’ society was one which is well organised. Proper recognition of this fact would make possible the reconstruction of society on sound foundations – utopia would become constructible through the application of science to society’ (New Palgrave).

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