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- Proudhon Library translations
- Feminist Responses to Proudhon
- Proudhon Lexicon
- Proudhon Library Projects
- The Incomplete Proudhon (in progress)
- Proudhon: Between Science and Vengeance (rough outline)
- A New Proudhon Library: Looking Forward
- Proudhon Library category feed
- Support the project at Patreon
Historical translations:
- Confessions of a Revolutionary (1849-1850; London Weekly Tribune abridgement)
- “J. P. Proudhon’s Extraordinary Views on God” (Reasoner Tracts, 1857 (?); excerpt from The System of Economic Contradictions)
- “Satan Befriended” (Ladies Repository, August 1858; excerpt from Justice in the Revolution and in the Church)
A NEW PROUDHON LIBRARY (Draft translations)
Application for the Suard Pension (1837) (text — last revised July, 2017)
Psychology (unpublished manuscript, 1838) (text — last revised November 2022)
Review: Essay on the Physical Analysis of Languages, or Methodical Alphabet (1839) (pdf — last revised March 27, 2024)
The Celebration of Sunday (1839) [revision pending] (pdf — last revised November 2023)
- Notes and manuscript material from the Rivière edition
What is Property? (1840)
- First and Second Memoirs (Benjamin R. Tucker translation)
- Notes on the text
Warning to the Proprietors (1841) [text — last revised March, 2023]
Explanations Presented to the Public Prosecutor Regarding the Right of Property (1842) (pdf — revised and expanded January 9, 2024)
The Creation of Order in Humanity (1843) [translation in progress]
- Definitions and Chapter I (draft — last revised August 2023)
- Chapter II — (draft — last revised August 2023)
- Chapter III — (draft — last revised August 2023)
- Chapter IV — (draft — last revised February 2024)
- Chapter V — (draft — last revised February 2024)
- Chapter VI — (draft — last revised February 2024)
The Miserere (1845) (text — last revised March 25, 2023)
Of the Competition between the Railways and Waterways (1845) (pdf — last revised February 2024)
Revolutionary Ideas (1848) (selected articles)
- The Malthusians (Benjamin R. Tucker translation)
- Expanded edition (pdf; draft complete — awaiting revision)
The Right to Work and the Right of Property (1848) (text — last revised April 2023)
Solution of the Social Problem (1848) (text — last revised March, 2023)
- The Revolution in 1848
- Democracy
The Organization of Credit and Circulation
- Program
Bank of Exchange (1848) (translation in progress)
- What is Property? (text — last revised March, 2023)
Articles from “Le Peuple” (1849)
- “The President is Responsible” and other writings (January 26-31, 1849) — (pdf — last revised July 5, 2024)
- Demonstration of Socialism, Theoretical and Practical, or Revolution by Credit (last revised July 2023)
- Proudhon before the Court of Assizes (last revised June 2023)
Acts of the Revolution (1849) — and articles from La Voix du Peuple
- What is Government? What is God? [unrevised translation]
- Resistance to the Revolution
- Georges Duchêne, “Government” — (pdf — last revised February 1, 2024)
- C.-F. Chevé, “Socialist Catechism” — (pdf)
The Confessions of a Revolutionary (1849) (pdf — draft, last revised March 10, 2024)
- Chapters 1-3 (pdf — last revised February 27, 2024)
- Chapters 4-9 (pdf — last revised February 29, 2024)
- …
- Conclusion and Post-Scriptum (pdf — last revised March 1, 2024)
The Present Utility and Future Possibility of the State (1849-1850)
- Sixth Article (text — last revised December 2014)
The Social Revolution Demonstrated by the Coup d’Etat of December 2 (1852) (pdf — draft, last revised July 19, 2024)
Napoleon I (manuscripts) (pdf — last revised July 22, 2024)
Economy (1850-1855)
- The Extremes [draft]
- Principles of the Philosophy of Progress (pdf — last revised December 10, 2023)
- New Propositions Demonstrated in the Practice of Revolutions (pdf — last revised December 10, 2023)
- Cahier (18255 at BnF) — selections (in progress)
- Ms. 2863 — selections (in progress)
- Ms 2866 — selections (in progress)
- Ms. 2867 — (in progress)
Philosophy of Progress: Program (1853) [revision in progress] (pdf — last revised December 10, 2023)
Society of the Perpetual Exhibition: Proposal (1855) (pdf — last revised April 18, 2024)
“Proudhon Explained by Himself” (Letter to Villaumé, composed 1856; published 1866) (text — last revised July 24, 2023)
The Justice Pursued by the Church (1858) (pdf — first draft, last revised March 26, 2024)
“What, Finally, is the Republic” (manuscript, c. 1858) (text — last revised May 2.2023)
How Business is Going in France and Why Will Have War, If We Have It (1859) (pdf— draft; last revised April 11,2024)
Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Revised Edition (1860)
- Text and Notes [newly revived draft and commentary] — in progress
- Volume One: Program, Preliminary Address, First, Second and Third Studies [PDF, revised draft]
- Volume Two: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Studies [PDF, revised draft]
- Popular Philosophy: Program (revised September 1, 2023)
- Preliminary Address (revised September 1, 2023)
- First Study: Position of the Problem of Justice (revised September 1, 2023)
- Second Study: Persons (revised September 1, 2023)
- Third Study: Goods (revised September 1, 2023)
- Fourth Study: The State (revised November 1, 2023)
- Fifth Study: Education (revised November 1, 2023)
- Sixth Study: Labor (revised November 1, 2023)
- Seventh Study: Ideas [draft complete; revision pending]
- Eighth Study: Conscience and Liberty [draft complete; revision pending]
- Ninth Study: Progress and Decadence [draft complete; revision pending]
- Tenth Study: Love and Marriage [draft complete; revision pending]
- Eleventh Study: Love and Marriage (continued) [draft complete; revision pending]
- Twelfth Study: Of Moral Sanction [draft complete; revision pending]
- News of the Revolution: Of the Pornocracy in Modern Times [draft complete; revision pending]
Theory of Taxation [translation in progress]
The Literary Majorats (1862) (pdf — last revised June 10, 2024)
Federation and Unity in Italy (1862) — [draft complete; last revised June 18, 2024]
The Sworn Democrats and the Refractories (1863) (pdf — last revised May 4, 2023)
New Observations on Italian Unity (1865) (pdf — last revised March 5, 2024)
Political Geography and Nationality [translation in progress]
Guarantism: Theory of Property [revision in progress]
The Federative Principle (pdf — last revised May 19, 2024)
If the Treaties of 1815 Have Ceased to Exist [draft complete; revision in process]
The Political Capacity of the Working Classes [translation in progress]
France and Rhine [translation in progress] (pdf — partial translation)
Political Contradictions — (pdf — last revised June 26, 2024)
Jesus and the Origins of Christianity (partial translation) (pdf — last revised July 23, 2024)
Supplementary texts:
- P.-J. Proudhon, Correspondence related to the Studies in Popular Philosophy (1859-1860)
- Eugène de Mirecourt, The Contemporaries: Proudhon [draft — revision in progress]
- Eugène de Mirecourt, Lettres de Monsieur P.-J. Proudhon
- Jenny P. d’Héricourt, Woman Emancipated [draft complete (Vol. 1, Vol. 2); revision pending]
- Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “Philosophical Letters on Tolerance and the Critique of Hypotheses” (1863-64)
- André Léo, Woman and Mores [draft complete; revision pending]
- Juliette Lambert, Anti-Proudhonian Ideas (2nd Edition) [draft — last revised March 2024]
- Léon Walras, L’Économie politique et la justice
- Pierre Leroux, Equality (1848, New Edition)(drafts: Part One, Part Three; last revised July 2, 2024)
- Pierre Leroux, The Doctrine of Humanity: Aphorisms (1848)
- Auguste Beauchery, “Solution of the Problem of Certainty” (1867) [draft; excerpt from Économie sociale de P. J. Proudhon]
- Philibert Audebrand, P.-J. Proudhon and the Horsewoman of the Hippodrome (1868) (pdf — last revised June 11, 2024)
- Joseph Perrot, Transformation of the Republican Government and the Parliamentary Power by the Federative Principle: Coming of the People to Property (1886) [draft — last revised May 2024]