What Is Property?: An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government - Couverture souple

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1943115230 ISBN 13 : 9781943115235

Editeur : Whitlock Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

When Pierre-Joseph Proudhon frst published What Is Property? in 1840, he was the frst self-proclaimed anarchist. This book was merely the beginning to his political ideals that led him to later become known as a leading social thinker during and after the French Revolution of 1848. In this book, Proudhon explores how proprietors of property rob the laborers of their wage. On a number of occasions, Proudhon's passionate and controversial beliefs created problems for him with government authorities and other political thinkers alike. In one of his trials, Proudhon was declared innocent because the jury could not understand his arguments, and therefore could not condemn his statements.

On top of being a radical anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French printer and philosopher, and his works influenced and contended with other pivotal schools of thought of the period. As a libertarian socialist, Proudhon found himself disagreeing with other political fgures at the time, like Karl Marx, on issues of property and freedom. As he traveled the countryside working various printer and editor positions, Proudhon witnessed and wrote about many of the socioeconomic injustices that oppressed the French working class. Proudhon's writing had the most profound effect upon workers' movements and the peasantry due to his humble roots.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"The letters of Proudhon, even outside the circle of his particular friends, will always be of value; we can always learn something from them, and here is the proper place to determine the general character of his correspondence. "It has always been large, especially since he became so celebrated; and, to tell the truth, I am persuaded that, in the future, the correspondence of Proudhon will be his principal, vital work, and that most of his books will be only accessory to and corroborative of this. At any rate, his books can be well understood only by the aid of his letters and the continual explanations which he makes to those who consult him in their doubt, and request him to define more clearly his position.

Biographie de l'auteur

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 - 1865) was a French politician, founder of Mutualism, and an early anarchist. Early in his life, Proudhon worked as a printer, which gave him the opportunities of learning Latin, reading extensively, and meeting Charles Fourier and Gustave Fallot. He was later exiled from France for insulting Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Whitlock Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1943115230
• ISBN 13: 9781943115235
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Éditeur: Manley Jordan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible