SOCIAL DESTINY OF MAN; OR, ASSOCIATION AND REORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY.
Brisbane, Albert:
Philadelphia. 1840. 480pp. Frontis. Original cloth, leather label. Endpapers made from letterhead of a mining and metallurgist firm. Some wear at extremities, else very good. A very scarce work on Associationism. Early in life Brisbane developed a deep interest in the social destiny of man, thus compelling him at eighteen to embark for Europe, where he studied under Cousin, Guizot, and Hegel. Upon concluding that human society required a fundamental reorganization, he found in Charles Fourier's ideas a basis for a just human society. After returning to America, Brisbane published his interpretation of Fourierism, SOCIAL DESTINY OF MAN.... So impressed was Horace Greeley by this work, that he offered Brisbane the use of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE. Brisbane was deeply involved with the Phalanx movement centered at Brook Farm. The double frontispiece of the institutional- looking phalanx building is especially notable. DAB III, pp.52-53.
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