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P.-J. Proudhon: Chronological Bibliography

Undated / multiple dates Papiers. I Économie. Notes, Extraits et Fragments. at Gallica Papiers. II-V Cahiers de notes de lecture. II Série de cahiers in-4° numérotés de 1 à 6. at Gallica Papiers. VI Cahiers de notes et extraits. at Gallica Papiers. VIII Varia. at Gallica Notes et écrits divers. Manuscript at Besançon Notes sur le libre-échange et sur la révolution. Manuscript at Besançon Notes divers. Manuscript at Besançon 1836 École du mouvement moral. Science positive, ou état d’être mécanique de l’humanité prise sous les trois points de vue et dans ses trois mesures irréductibles ; et, en résultance de son […]
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P.-J. Proudhon, “Notes et écrits divers (Ms. 2874-2884)

A collection of Proudhon’s manuscript writings, digitized by the Ville de Besançon. manuscripts Ms. 2874 Ebauche d’article sur Mazzini et Garibaldi (cf. Mazzini et l’unité italienne, Garibaldi et l’unité italienne, Bruxelles, Office de publicité. 13-VII et 7-IX-1862) 2 Textes sur la démocratie 22 Texte sur l’Italie 26 Tract “Au Peuple italien” 41 Textes sur Rome et la papauté 42 Notes de géopolitique 56 “Jacobins, journalistes, partis” 64 Brouillon d’article sur le Schleswig-Holstein 67 Notes sur les traités de 1815 et les nationalités 72 Lettre de Darimon à Proudhon et commentaires de cette lettre par ce dernier 73 Notes sur Lincoln […]
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P.-J. Proudhon, “War and Peace,” Volume I

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 10px”]   WAR AND PEACE INVESTIGATIONS REGARDING THE PRINCIPLE AND CONSTITUTION OF THE RIGHTS OF NATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface BOOK ONE: PHENOMENOLOGY OF WAR Chapter One. — Of the phenomenality of war Chap. II. — War is a divine fact Chap. III. — War, religious revelation Chap. IV. — War, revelation of justice Chap. V. — War, revelation of the ideal Chap. Vl. — War, discipline of humanity Chap. VII. — The man of war is greater than nature Chap. VIII. — War and peace, correlative expressions Chap. IX. — Problem of war and peace BOOK […]
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P.-J Proudhon, “The Social Revolution Demonstrated by the Coup d’Etat” (1852)

The Social Revolution is a radical book with a strangely reactionary reputation. Having already addressed his ideas to all the most likely audiences, during the period when revolutionary hopes were still widespread in France, he turned, during his prison sentence, to less likely audiences. For example, The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, which has retained a very radical reputation, was addressed to the bourgeoisie. So it is only through an escalation of his existing strategy that his next work became a call to the newly self-proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III to recognize the inevitability of the Social […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Eighth Study

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] PROUDHON LIBRARY home page Justice in the Revolution and in the Church (in progress):: Popular Philosophy: Program [draft] First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice Second Study: Persons Third Study: Goods Fourth Study: The State [excerpts] Fifth Study: Education Sixth Study: Labor Seventh Study: Ideas Eighth Study: Conscience and Freedom [excerpts] Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence Tenth Study: Love and Marriage Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (continued) Twelfth Study: Moral Sanction [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] CHAPTER V Nature and function of liberty. XXXI. Let us finish first with the ambiguity which, on this […]
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Proudhon, Justice: Program

PROUDHON LIBRARY home page Justice in the Revolution and in the Church (in progress): Popular Philosophy: Program First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice Second Study: Persons Third Study: Goods Fourth Study: The State Fifth Study: Education Sixth Study: Labor Seventh Study: Ideas Eighth Study: Conscience and Freedom Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence Tenth Study: Love and Marriage Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (contined) Twelfth Study: Moral Sanction JUSTICE IN THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE CHURCH. BY PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON [1] _________ Volume I POPULAR PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM I. — The coming of the people to philosophy. At the beginning of […]
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Stephen Pearl Andrews, “‘Proudhon and His Translator’ Again” (1876)

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Debates in The Index: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [For The Index.] “PROUDHON AND HIS TRANSLATOR” AGAIN. BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. In THE INDEX of July 13, 1876, Mr. Ben;. R. Tucker criticizes my criticism of Proudhon, published in a previous issue of THE INDEX (June 22). Permit me to use a small portion of space for a reply. For the most part the tone of Mr. Tucker’s article is elevated and courteous his appreciation of what he approves in mine ample and generous, and his discriminations in behalf of Proudhon full of a devotedness […]
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Benjamin R. Tucker, “Proudhon and His Critic” (1876)

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Debates in The Index: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [For The Index.] PROUDHON AND HIS CRITIC. BY BENJ. R. TUCKER. The student of Proudhon must have laid down The Index of June 22d, containing Stephen Pearl Andrews’ article on “Proudhon and his Translator,” with a feeling of pleasure not unmixed with pain; pleasure at meeting at last with an elaborate and scholarly criticism of this author and his work, dealing in argument rather than ridicule; and pain at finding this same criticism so alloyed with error and careless misstatement as to greatly detract from its […]
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Stephen Pearl Andrews, “Proudhon and His Translator” (1876)

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Debates in The Index: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] [For The Index.] PROUDHON AND HIS TRANSLATOR. BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. Benj. R. Tucker, the business partner and confrère of E. H. Heywood of Princeton, Mass., has translated and published, in an elegant volume of nearly 500 royal octavo pages, the most renowned of the politico-economical works of the justly celebrated P. J. Proudhon. The title of the work in English is: What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. I am requested to write a review-notice of the work. The […]
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P.-J. Proudhon, “System of Economic Contradictions” (Eighth Epoch—Property)

[Parts of this translation are quite rough, so use with caution and preferably with reference to the original French.] THE SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS CHAPTER XI EIGHTH EPOCH.—PROPERTY 1.—Property is inexplicable apart from the economic series.—Of the organization of common sense, or problem of certainty. The problem of property is, after that of human destiny, the greatest that reason can propose, and the last that it will be able to resolve. Indeed, the theological problem, the enigma of religion, has been explicated; the philosophical problem, which treats the value and legitimacy of knowledge, is resolved: there remains the social problem, […]