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Six years (so far) in the making

November 21, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I just finished the last paragraphs of a first-draft translation of Joseph Déjacque’s The Humanisphere, a major milestone in a process I started back in 2007, when I translated an excerpt, “Authority and Idleness,” that […]

Joseph Déjacque’s style

November 16, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve finally completed a first-draft translation of Part I of Joseph Déjacque’s The Humanisphere, which is not long, but has to be one of the most difficult translation tasks I’ve attempted. I decided to start […]

More Proudhon manucripts online

November 15, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

There is another batch of Proudhon’s manuscripts, 1300+ pages worth, available on the Gallica site.

By Deed

November 11, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve just finished a working translation of Ravachol’s “Memoirs,” which were dictated to his prison guards in 1892, and am taking the opportunity to also post two related documents, “The Hare and the Hunter,” the […]

Proudhon manuscripts online

November 10, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The Ville de Besançon, home of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, has an excellent digital archive site, which I just discovered includes scans of several of Proudhon’s manuscripts, including Pologne (source of The Theory of Property), Chronos, and […]

Proudhon on “libertarians” in 1858

November 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been working my way through those sections of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church which I didn’t have to consult carefully while writing the chapter on the State, as the […]

Practicing the Encounter: Appropriation (and Ecology)

October 14, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

Let’s get a little practice with all the tools we’ve been assembling. And, to do so, let’s stick, for the moment, with the question of property. It’s been one of my more or less […]

Fourier, “Intermeshing of the Series by Cabalistic Gastronomy”

October 7, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE NEW INDUSTRIAL WORLD CHAPTER XXVI. Intermeshing of the Series by Cabalistic Gastronomy. In the course of the preceding sections and the Preface, we have had […]

Proudhon on the “right to punish”

October 3, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here is another section from the study on moral sanction, the concluding section of Justice in the Revolution and in the Church.] II. — Does society have the right to punish? The philosophers struggle, and […]

Proudhon, Justice: Twelfth Study

October 2, 2013 Shawn P. Wilbur

The final study in Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church deals with the question of “moral sanction.” This section explains the identity, within Proudhon’s thought of the law, the legislator, and the […]