Welcome to the Proudhon Library

A NEW PROUDHON LIBRARY (Draft translations)

• A  plan for volumes in the New Proudhon Library (pdf)

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Psychology (unpublished manuscript, 1838) (text — last revised November 2022)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 (1861) (pdf — partial translation, last revised November 13,2024)

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 (pdf — draft translation; last revised March 15, 2025)

The Principle of Art and Its Social Destination [translation in progress] (pdf — partial translation)

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)

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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]