Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre

Giulio Talini (University of Naples Federico II)

Ed. by Jenny Mander, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.04: French Writing and Culture: Eighteenth-Century and the Enlightenment, 1700-1800.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge), Síofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 13 Feb 1658
Died 29 Apr 1743
Activity c. 1700-1743

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Philosopher
Political writer

Resources

Saint-Pierre's Works

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Charles-Irénée Castel,

abbé

de Saint-Pierre was born in Saint-Pierre-Église, on 13 February 1658, and died in Paris on 29 April 1743. Until recently, his name has been associated with the vast and multifaceted European tradition of utopian thought on account of the presumed impracticability of his numerous projects and designs. His

Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe

(1713-1717), a pacifist plan for a European federation, has, most notably, sustained criticism since its first publication. Only in the last decades have historians recognised Saint-Pierre for who he really was: an audacious, original, and learned reformer whose radical views on politics, institutions, international relations, culture, and education expressed the first utilitarian trends of the Enlightenment…

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Citation: Talini, Giulio. "Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 October 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14792, accessed 21 November 2024.]