I’ve posted a working translation of Maxime Leroy’s essay, “Stirner vs. Proudhon,” which originally appeared in 1905 in La Renaissance latine. The essay is really not much about Proudhon, and is perhaps ambivalent in its approach to Stirner, but it is certainly interesting enough to have been worth the work.
Working Translations
Auguste Beauchery, “Solution of the Problem of Certainty”
We would have liked to offer the reader a summary, however succinct, of the solution to the problem of certainty provided by M. Proudhon using the serial method; but this serious question—which offers to legitimize our knowledge in an absolute way, which claims nothing less than to demonstrate the certainty of our judgments, which has been declared unapproachable by philosophy, which has been attacked on all sides by the greatest geniuses who have elightened humanity, and which has been abandoned after having watched the most profound intelligences follow one after another in vain, for centuries, and die at the task—cannot be accepted as resolved in a quintessence. […]
Contr'un
“Property is Theft!” book launch in London
[From Iain McKay] Freedom Bookshop is hosting the book launch of“Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph ProudhonAnthology”. This is the new comprehensive anthology of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s writings published by AK Press. Proudhon was the first person […]
French texts
Fifth study—L’Education—Parallel French
CINQUIÈME ÉTUDE DE L’ÉDUCATION À Son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. I Monseigneur, Napoléon Ier dit dans ses mémoires : « Mon enfance n’eut rien de remarquable ; je n’étais qu’un enfant curieux et obstiné. » C’est justement […]