Oeuvres De Claude-Henri De Saint-Simon Tome I, II, III, IV, V, & VI by Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri De - 1966

E-141: Editions Anthropos. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Éditions Anthropos, Paris, France. 1966. 6 volumes. 223, 242, 240+192, 207, 258+313, 526 pgs. Text in French. Bound in faded light blue cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The editors, considering that Saint-Simon s Oeuvres Complètes, dating from 1868-1878, were extremely rare but also incomplete, decided to offer a "réimpression anastaltique" which contains the 11 volumes of that edition in five volumes, and added a 6th volume which offers new materials. Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825) , was a French political and economic theorist and businessman whose thought played a substantial role in influencing politics, economics, sociology, and the philosophy of science. He created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonianism that claimed that the needs of an industrial class, which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Unlike conceptions, within industrializing societies, of a working class being manual labourers alone, Saint-Simon's late-18th century conception of this class included all people engaged in productive work that contributed to society, that included businesspeople, managers, scientists, bankers, along with manual labourers amongst others. He said the primary threat to the needs of the industrial class was another class he referred to as the idling class, that included able people who preferred to be parasitic and benefit from the work of others while seeking to avoid doing work. Saint-Simon stressed the need for recognition of the merit of the individual and the need for hierarchy of merit in society and in the economy, such as society having hierarchical merit-based organizations of managers and scientists to be the decision-makers in government. He strongly criticized any expansion of government intervention into the economy beyond ensuring no hindrances to productive work and reducing idleness in society, regarding intervention beyond these as too intrusive. E-141; Six Volumes; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .