Background
Beecher, Jonathan French was born on April 26, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of HenryKnowles Unangst and Margaret Swain Beecher.
( Jonathan F. Beecher's accomplished study is both a live...)
Jonathan F. Beecher's accomplished study is both a lively life story of one of the most engaging figures among the French romantic intellectuals of the 1840s and a compelling chronicle of early French socialism. Victor Considerant (1808-1893), a follower of the great utopian thinker Charles Fourier, played an important role in the creation of a Fourierist movement and the development of socialist journalism. In the process of conveying a rich understanding of Considerant's life, Beecher traces the rise and fall of French romantic socialism and demonstrates how the utopian visions of thinkers such as Charles Fourier came to inspire a whole generation of young radicals and reformers not only in France but also in Dostoevky's Russia and in the America of Horace Greeley and Margaret Fuller. He paints a vivid portrait of a particularly important period of European intellectual history and gives his readers insight into the experience of a generation of thinkers and political activists. This comprehensive history will become the definitive work on Victor Considerant, and—along with Beecher's classic study of Fourier—a major contribution to the history of French socialism in the nineteenth century.
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Beecher, Jonathan French was born on April 26, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of HenryKnowles Unangst and Margaret Swain Beecher.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1959. Postgraduate, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1968.
Seaman Sailors Union of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1957-1958. Instructor history Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1969. Assistant professor University California, Santa Cruz, 1970-1976, associate professor, 1976-1986, professor, since 1986.
Foreign correspondent Revue D'Histoire Du XIXe Siècle, Paris, since 1986.
( Jonathan F. Beecher's accomplished study is both a live...)
Member Association D'Etudes Fouriéristes, American Histo. Association, Academy Des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts de Besancon (associate), Melville Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Merike Lepasaar, August 24, 1974. Children: David Ilmar, Daniel Lembit.