PHILOSOPHER

Étienne Cabet

1788 - 1856

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Étienne Cabet (French: [etjɛn kabɛ]; January 1, 1788 – November 9, 1856) was a French philosopher and utopian socialist who founded the Icarian movement. Cabet became the most popular socialist advocate of his day, with a special appeal to artisans who were being undercut by factories. Cabet published Voyage en Icarie in French in 1839 (and in English in 1840 as Travels in Icaria), in which he proposed replacing capitalist production with workers' cooperatives. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Cabet has received more than 158,026 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Étienne Cabet is the 396th most popular philosopher (up from 404th in 2019), the 1,128th most popular biography from France (up from 1,191st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular French Philosopher.

He is most famous for his utopian novel "Voyage to Icaria" which he wrote in 1839. The novel describes a society where there is no private property, and all people are equal.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Étienne Cabet ranks 396 out of 1,267. Before him are Étienne Gilson, Heinrich Rickert, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Damascius, Alain de Lille, and Kapila. After him are Boetius of Dacia, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Archelaus, Timon of Phlius, and Chantal Mouffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Étienne Cabet ranks 12. Before him are Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria. After him are Rama III, Antoine César Becquerel, Robert Peel, Ranavalona I, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, and Johan Christian Dahl. Among people deceased in 1856, Étienne Cabet ranks 9. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro, Max Stirner, Adolphe Adam, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Paul Delaroche, and Ivan Paskevich. After him are Ľudovít Štúr, 11th Dalai Lama, Théodore Chassériau, Farkas Bolyai, Manuela Sáenz, and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Cabet ranks 1,128 out of 6,770. Before him are Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Jacques Rivette (1928), René Lalique (1860), Jean de Joinville (1224), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), and Pierre Augereau (1757). After him are Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (1145), Pierre Mignard (1612), William X, Duke of Aquitaine (1099), Lionel Jospin (1937), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), and Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Étienne Cabet ranks 53. Before him are Maurice Halbwachs (1877), René Girard (1923), Jean Gerson (1363), Richard Avenarius (1843), Étienne Gilson (1884), and Alain de Lille (1117). After him are Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Alain de Benoist (1943), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), and Ernest Gellner (1925).

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