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Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “La Femme affrancie / Woman Emancipated” — Volume II

July 31, 2023 Shawn P. Wilbur

A daughter of my century, raised with the doctrines summarized by our glorious Revolution, I will not seek the sources of Right and Duty in the world of Supernaturalism. No. I will leave to the last echoes of the ancient world the irrational fantasy of using their argumentation, based on the unknown, to prove that Right is granted and Duty imposed by some God. On the contrary, I say that both have their origins within us; that they result from the ensemble of our faculties, from our destiny, from the necessary relations that sustain us with ourselves, with our fellows, and with nature.

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Proclamations for 1860

September 17, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

EMPEROR NORTON PROJECT: January 4, 1860 Proclamation. Whereas, a body of men calling themselves the National Congress, are now in session in Washington city, in violation of our Imperial edict of the 12th of October last, declaring the said Congress abolished: Whereas, it is necessary for the repose of our Empire that the said decree should be strictly complied with: Now, therefore, we do hereby Order and Direct Major General Scott, the Commander-in-Chief of our Armies, immediately on receipt of this our Decree, to proceed with a suitable force and clear the Halls of Congress. Norton I., Emperor […]

Calvin Blanchard on Art-Liberty (1860)

December 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Art-Liberty [category feed] “My Undertaking and its Auspices” (1861) Those Peculiar Advertisements (1864–1865) Writings in the Boston Investigator (1861–1866) “Last Words of Calvin Blanchard” (1868) “In Search of The Writings of Calvin Blanchard“ Works by Calvin Blanchard: Blanchard’s bulletin to independent thinkers [1856—] The new crisis, or, Our deliverance from priestly fraud, political charlatanry, and popular despotism, 1857. The Essence of Science; or, The catechism of positive sociology, and physical mentality. By a student of Auguste Comte. New York, C. Blanchard, 1859 The religion of science: or, The art of actualizing liberty, and of perfecting […]

Jenny d’Héricourt, “Appeal to Women” and “Profession of Faith”

June 20, 2012

[I’ve been working on an anthology of Jenny P. d’Héricourt’s works, combining her two-volume Woman Affranchised with an assortment of other works of feminist philosophy. d’Héricourt was, of course, one of Proudhon’s opponents on the question of women’s rights, and her response to him makes up an important part of the first volume of Woman Affranchised, but the second volume (about two-thirds of which was not included in the existing English translation) shows her as an accomplished social thinker and activist. I’ve been revising and completing the translation of the first volume of that work, and hope to have at […]