{"product_id":"2026200009381-secondhand-the-prophets-of-paris","title":"The Prophets Of Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — card cover in good condition with light wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work in the history of ideas, The Prophets of Paris chronicles the intellectual lives and utopian visions of five towering French thinkers — Turgot, Condorcet, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Comte — whose radical philosophies of progress shaped the modern Western world. Frank E. Manuel argues that these visionaries, writing across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, collectively forged a revolutionary faith in reason, science, and human perfectibility that still resonates in contemporary political and social thought. With scholarly rigour and genuine narrative flair, the work presents each thinker in vivid biographical and ideological detail, illuminating the tensions between their utopian dreams and the turbulent realities of post-revolutionary France. Manuel illustrates how these prophets, though often dismissed or marginalised in their own time, laid the intellectual groundwork for socialism, positivism, and the social sciences as we know them today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887995007195,"sku":"2026200009381-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2e0bf867-7e71-478d-95e6-09748db448f1.png?v=1781751858","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200009381-secondhand-the-prophets-of-paris","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}