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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

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

A searing meditation on power, upheaval, and the forces that shape societies. Reflections On Violence by Georges Sorel stands as a cornerstone of early 20th century ideas, challenging readers to confront the realities behind revolutionary thought and the enduring struggle between... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

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

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Sorel fait entrer le lecteur dans le monde singuli rement vaste de ses lectures et de ses observations; sans doute, on n'a pas de peine relever des erreurs d'interpr tation, des inexactitudes de fait dans ce nombre prodigieux de remarques; mais on peut toujours tre s r de... Read Full Overview