Between utopia and need: reflections on the cosmopolitanism of Saint-Simon

Authors

  • FRANCISCO MARTÍNEZ MESA

Keywords:

France, History, Internationalism, Political Theory, Saint-simonianism.

Abstract

The present article examines the linkage between the Saint Simonian thought after his teacher’s death and its internationalist discourse. For the author, in spite of the discrepancies established between the several specialists, exists a line of constant continuity in the Saint-Simonianism to the hour to reaffirm the cosmopolitanism like indispensable frame for the establishment of the society industrial to an universal context. That coherence with the Saint-Simonian ideology will be a constant until the end of the movement, being completely compatible with the strategic adaptations that his members would accomplish in the course of time, in its eagerness to strengthen links and to forge alliances with those sectors and class of the French society without whose contribution the project would be doomed for the failure.

Published

2010-03-22

Issue

Section

ARTICLES