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This year’s million-word translation push has a couple of different motives behind it. At a basic level, it’s a way to make productive what looks like an otherwise disastrous year for me. Last year was […]

It’s been quiet here on the blog, which usually means I’ve been busy elsewhere. This time is no exception. The next phase of the work on Proudhon involves writing up some truly introductory material, which […]

I’ve started translating a short posthumous work by Flora Tristan, “The Emancipation of Woman,” published in 1846. I’m presenting the final chapter, which includes brief appraisals of a number of prominent socialists, including Proudhon. You’ll […]

Here’s a bit from The Theory of Property (which I have been working on some again), which discusses the relationship between Proudhon’s famous proposal to the provisional government and his developing theory. My famous proposition […]

I’ve set up a poll over on the Working Translations blog, with five possible book-length translation projects, and would love to have folks pick the one that’s seems most interesting. All are to some extent […]

I’ve now posted a complete working translation of Joseph Déjacque’s, “The Humanisphere.” There are a small number of problem sections, which I believe will be obvious. I hope, too, that much of what is really […]

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 […]

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 […]

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