INED, 3318; Kress, 5457; Goldsmiths’, 9074; Einaudi, 4031.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition. The Code de la nature<\/i> is considered a forerunner of socialistic ideas.<\/p>\n
Published the same year as the Discours sur l’origine et les fondemens de l’in\u00e9galit\u00e9 des hommes<\/i>, the Code de la nature<\/i> presents itself as the answers given by an anonymous writer on the attacks of the critical articles published on yet another anonymous book the Naufrage des Isles Flottantes, ou Basiliade du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre Pilpai<\/i>. In the first three parts of his essay, Morelly returns to the flaws in the political organisation, as well as the morality, on which society is founded. For this philosopher of the Enlightenment, all its ills are attributable to the reign of private property, which, by fracturing the original community, bears responsibility for man’s wickedness. He thus opposed the Hobbesian idea of “Homo homini lupus est” by defending the original goodness of mankind and the need for mutual aid. Attributed for some time to Diderot, it is thanks to Babeuf that Morelly’s authorship has been ascertained. The book is considered a precursor of communistic ideas since 1917.<\/p>\n
“Paru en 1755, le Code de la nature<\/i> est un ouvrage tout \u00e0 fait essentiel pour qui s\u2019interroge sur ce que l\u2019on appelait nagu\u00e8re le ‘pragmatisme’ des Lumi\u00e8res : c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire non pas une \u00e9l\u00e9mentaire mise en projet de simples programmes ant\u00e9rieurement pens\u00e9s, comme le croient ceux qui rapetissent tout ce qu\u2019ils touchent, mais la recherche d\u2019une forme d\u2019\u00e9nonciation de ce que l\u2019on pourrait entreprendre qui modifierait radicalement l\u2019ordre des choses et du monde\u2026 La signification profonde du Code, paru peu apr\u00e8s le Naufrage des isles flottantes ou Basiliade<\/i>, s\u2019\u00e9claire de leur confrontation : le plan de l\u00e9gislation imagin\u00e9 par Morelly n\u2019\u00e9tait pas un dispositif adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 une situation marginale et exceptionnelle, mais au contraire se voulait un projet majeur de r\u00e9organisation de l\u2019ordre social dominant, fond\u00e9 sur la proposition que la ‘communaut\u00e9 des biens doit devenir la matrice de l\u2019organisation sociale’ face \u00e0 ‘la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e’ qui en serait son “d\u00e9tournement”. Le Code de la nature<\/i> rel\u00e8ve donc moins de la po\u00e9tique que de la th\u00e9orie sociale” (see St\u00e9phanie Roza, in : \u00c9tienne-Gabriel Morelly, le Code de la Nature, \u00e9tude critique, Montreuil 2011).<\/p>\n
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12mo (165 x 97 mm) 236 pp., 2 unn.ll. (index). Title printed in red and black, decorated with an engraved vignette showing putti and a globe. Contemporary olive green morocco, triple gilt filet on covers, flat spine elaborately gilt in ‘\u00e0 la grotesque’ style, inner rules, original endpapers, gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[536],"product_tag":[1232,1210],"class_list":{"0":"post-80097","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-right-economy","7":"product_tag-law","8":"product_tag-utopia","9":"pa_auteur-morelly-etienne-gabriel-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"","book_type":"","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n