After the month-long interruption in April, I’m finally settling down to work on the chronological review of Proudhon’s work that I have mentioned recently — which is also the process that will produce some print-on-demand volumes for A New Proudhon Library. I’ve been working without my usual daily quotas and deadlines, for the first time in over three years, and spending a lot of time thinking — no doubt sometimes over-thinking — about the translation strategies I began to develop a decade ago, while puttering away at Proudhon’s journalism and correspondence.
QUATRIÈME ÉTUDE L’ÉTAT CHAPITRE PREMIER. Phénomène de l’instabilité des gouvernements. Antipathie de la conscience humaine pour le pouvoir. — Position du problème politique. I ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — N° 4. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE. —— QUATRIÈME ÉTUDE. L’ÉTAT. CHAPITRE PREMIER. Phénomène de l’instabilité des états. — Antipathie de la conscience humaine pour le gouvernement. — Origine du droit divin et de son équivalent, la souveraineté du peuple. — Exemple de la nation française. — Position du problème politique. Monseigneur, L’homme qui possède la foi est vraiment heureux : il ne doute de rien ; […]
Carnets, Vol. 2 (Carnet No. 5, 111-114): 166-167. — All the reformers preach charity: me, I preach hatred. Hatred is nothing other than the zeal for justice, for vengeance. Hatred has contributed as much to the progress of the good as love… Hatred, in the conditions of existence of man, is as necessary, as legitimate, as devotion. — It is the admission of our imperfection, the sentiment of our ugliness, the consciousness of our innate iniquity:… the reaction of our soul against its perverse inclinations and aberrations. Hatred has its excesses, its materialism, its blindness and its outbursts, like love, […]
