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JUSTICE: The origin of ideas

January 4, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section IV. IV.– The origin of ideas. Here is the great temptation, I should say the great conspiracy of the philosophers; here […]

mutualism

JUSTICE: On the quality of the philosophical mind

January 2, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section III. § III. — On the quality of the philosophical mind. But here is a rather different affair! It is a […]

mutualism

Justice: The definition of philosophy

January 1, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Volume I, “Program,” section II. § II. — The definition of philosophy. Philosophy is composed of a certain number of questions that have been regarded […]

Anarchism

Kicking off a year of Justice

January 1, 2009 Shawn P. Wilbur

2008 was a transitional year for my various projects, and some, like the English-language archiving, suffered a bit from my relocation and the various transitions that surrounded it. I hope that an equivalent service to […]

Contr'un

Colins’ painful punctuation

December 31, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Warning: Off-topic chatter about the process of translation. Jean Guillaume Cesar Alexandre Hippolyte, baron de Colins was the chief theorist of Rational Socialism, and a frequent critic and intellectual rival of Proudhon. Indeed, Colins’ crew […]

Contr'un

War: What’s it good for?

December 30, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

It turns out that Proudhon’s answer to the musical question is rather interesting, and challenging. His two-volume War and Peace represents an further exploration of some of the ideas he had developed in Justice in […]

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Proudhon’s “Kronos”

December 21, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the biographical introduction to Tucker’s edition of What is Property? is a brief mention that around 1851 Proudhon’s “entertained the idea of writing a universal history entitled “Chronos.” This project was never fulfilled.” There […]

Proudhon’s projects

December 17, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] During his lifetime Proudhon was frequently accused of being primarily a critic, a destroyer, and within anarchist circles it is largely his destructive critique […]

translations

Second things first

December 17, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

The “Second Letter” of Proudhon’s The Philosophy of Progress is now available in English translation in the Libertarian Labyrinth archive. For those interested in the elements of Proudhon’s philosophy involving collective persons, or those relating […]

…or is there?

December 15, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur

Well, it appears that the class action suit against Google Books is being resolved, and Google feels free to make some texts available that it has been sitting on for years. Among those newly available […]