Utopian and Scientific Archives - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Henri de Saint-Simon (1760 – 1825)

November 3, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: Letters from an Inhabitant of Geneva to his Contemporaries (pdf) Researching the background and origins of anarchism means engaging to some extent with the works of most of the so-called “utopian socialists.” In recent […]

Dictionary of Phalansterian Sociology — X-Z

October 24, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

X Emploi de la lettre x dans la théorie de la distribution sériaire. — La lettre X a été adoptée par Fourier pour désigner dans la distribution sériaire les groupes de pivot et de contre-pivot. […]

Gabriel-Désiré Laverdant, “Of the Mission of Art and the Role of Artists” (1845)

August 6, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

Art, expression of Society, expresses, in its highest development, the most advanced social tendencies; it is precursory and revealing. Now, to know if art worthily fulfills its role as initiator, if the artist is indeed at the forefront, it is necessary to know where Humanity is going, what is the destiny of the Species.

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Gustave d’Eichthal and Ismayl Urbain, “Letters on the Black Race and the White Race” (1839)

July 3, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

Prosper Enfantin, “The Priest—Male and Female” (1831)

July 2, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

Paul Brown, “A Moral Catechism” (1822)

May 11, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

An appendix to Paul Brown’s 1822 work, An Enquiry Concerning the Nature, End and Practicability of a Course of Philosophical Education. It contains a rather fascinating attempt to sketch out a system of virtues, faculties […]

John Adolphus Etzler and Andreas Bernardus Smolnikar

September 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: The Paradise within the Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery (1836) [Archive.org] The New World or Mechanical System (1841) [Archive.org] Patents Mode of Propelling Locomotives by Stationary […]

Charles Fourier, Theory of Universal Unity: Avant-propos

September 12, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

NOTES: These texts form part of an attempt to compare the English translations of Fourier’s works produced in the mid-19th century with the original texts, part of the project of assessing what work remains to […]

Henry Olerich, “A Cityless and Countryless World” (1893)

August 24, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Reviews: A CITYLESS AND COUNTRYLESS WORLD. BY MARIE LOUISE. Under this caption, Mr. Henry Olerich, of Holstein, Iowa, writes a 447 page book on “Practical Cooperative Individualism.” Like all speculative philosophers, the author believes in […]

Pierre Leroux, “De la doctrine du progrès continu” (1834)

August 13, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

The second volume of the Œuvres de Pierre Leroux begins with a lengthy essay “De la doctrine de la perfectibilité et du progrès continu,” which combines material from this essay and two others. Pierre Leroux […]