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Sorel developed an original and provocative theory on the positive, even creative, role of myth and violence in the historical process. Sorel was a civil servant who fervently believed that only the clearest and most brutal expression of class war could effect lasting social... Read Full Overview

Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence (1908) remains a controversial text to this day. It unashamedly advocates the use of violence as a means of putting an end to the corrupt politics of bourgeois democracy and of bringing down capitalism. It is both dangerous and fascinating,... Read Full Overview

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good... Read Full Overview

La philosophie de la violence de Georges Sorel r unit au plus haut point toutes les ambigu t s des philosophies de la vie, du pragmatisme et des pens es socialistes r volutionnaires. La violence dont il fait l' loge est celle de la gr ve g n rale syndicaliste dont la force de... Read Full Overview

La philosophie de la violence de Georges Sorel r unit au plus haut point toutes les ambigu t s des philosophies de la vie, du pragmatisme et des pens es socialistes r volutionnaires. La violence dont il fait l' loge est celle de la gr ve g n rale syndicaliste dont la force... Read Full Overview

Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence (1908) remains a controversial text to this day. It unashamedly advocates the use of violence as a means of putting an end to the corrupt politics of bourgeois democracy and of bringing down capitalism. It is both dangerous and fascinating,... Read Full Overview

"Reflections on Violence" from Georges Sorel. French syndicalist philosopher (1847-1922).

"Reflexions sur la violence" de Georges Sorel. Philosophe et sociologue francais (1847-1922)."

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