[BALL (Pierre-Simon)]. The Man Without a Name. Second editio - Lot 217

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[BALL (Pierre-Simon)]. The Man Without a Name. Second editio - Lot 217
[BALL (Pierre-Simon)]. The Man Without a Name. Second edition. Paris, Didot aîné, 1828. In-8 dark green half-maroquin, smooth spine, gilt title, date on tail, gilt head (rel. post. by L. Pouillet). The rare first edition of 1820 was printed in only 100 copies. According to its author, the preamble of this second edition should have "only the same kind of publicity. It is made only so that it can join the Social Palingénésie, now in press, which itself is not, at present, intended for the public." A Catholic counter-revolutionary and progressive, the philosopher P.-S. Ballanche (1776-1847) produced a work deeply marked by his own experience of the adolescent Revolution, which was dedicated to the study of the cycles of human evolution and social renewal. His great work was to be entitled Social Palingénésie; never completed, he published only fragments of it progressively in the form of philosophical poems, of which the Man without a Name is a part. His Essays on Social Palingenesis, published in 1827-1829, were the introduction to this work. A term used by the Stoic philosophers to designate the reconstitution or apocatastasis of the world after fire has destroyed it, a kind of eternal restarting, palingenesis is for Pierre-Simon Ballanche the collective regeneration through the accumulation of individual redemptions. The word was also used by early socialists such as Pierre Leroux (1797-1871) and Proudhon (1809-1865). Rarely freckles. Beautiful ex. (Barber II, 859.)
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