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Reflections on Violence (French: Réflexions sur la violence), published in 1908, is a book by the French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel on class struggle and revolution. [1]
- Georges Sorel
- 1908
6 de mar. de 2008 · Reflections on violence by Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922; Hulme, T. E. (Thomas Ernest), 1883-1917
- JEREMY JENNINGS
- Reflections on violence
- Acknowledgements
- Sorel’s early writings
- The context of Sorel’s Reflections
- Philosophical influences
- Style and methodology
- Myths
- Class struggle and violence
- The revolutionary tradition
- The general strike
- Lenin and the Russian Revolution
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Chronology
- Biographical synopses
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Introduction: Letter to Daniel Hale ́vy Introduction to the first publication I. Class struggle and violence II. The decadence of the bourgeoisie and violence III. Prejudices against violence IV. The proletarian strike V. The political general strike VI. The ethics of v...
It is a pleasure to acknowledge my debt to my friends in the Socie ́te ́ d’Etudes Sore ́liennes. To Christophe Prochasson and Sophie Coeure ́ (and, latterly, Aure ́lien) go my thanks (and much more) for being there. Ialso record my deep affection and appreciation for the late John L. Stanley: no one has done more than he to make Sorel available and...
Born in , Georges Sorel came late to writing about politics. A provincial and bourgeois upbringing was completed by an education in Paris and then by over twenty years working as a civil engineer for the French State. Most of that time was spent in the southern town of Perpignan, far from the intellectual and political excitement of Paris. Yet ...
Two movements serve to explain this new stance and form the immediate backdrop to the argument of Reflections on Violence. The first is the rise of the French syndicalist movement, committed to the tactics of direct action by the working class. Sorel had been following these developments since the late s, producing a series of texts that sketc...
If syndicalism and the Dreyfus affair provide the immediate politi-cal context for Reflections on Violence, then it is Sorel’s immersion in the broader intellectual environment of his day that gives the text its vibrancy and its originality. Sorel received one of the best educations that the French State could offer, yet he regarded him-self as sel...
If Sorel regarded himself as self-educated, so too he was acutely aware that the way he presented his argument in Reflections on Viol-ence did not conform to ‘the rules of the art of writing’. As the introductory ‘Letter to Daniel Hale ́vy’ reveals, he was unapologetic about this, informing his readers that ‘Iwrite notebooks in which I set down my ...
This leads to the development of one of Sorel’s most controversial ideas: the importance of myths. Myths, as ‘expressions of a will to act’, are the very antithesis of utopias. Again Sorel addresses this issue in his introductory ‘Letter to Daniel Hale ́vy’, precisely because it informs so much of his subsequent argument. ‘The mind of man’, Sorel t...
What is the purpose of this decisive struggle? In the final chapter of his text Sorel describes what will be ‘the ethic of the producers of the future’ and in doing so he confirms that the ‘great preoccu-pation’ of his entire life was ‘the historical genesis of morality’.4 The particular morality described is an austere one, owing much to the sever...
This, then, was Sorel’s shocking conclusion: violence would save the world from barbarism. But what sort of violence was it to be? Here we come to the heart of so much of the subsequent misunder-standing (as well as misuse) of his ideas, for Sorel was adamant that a distinction had to be drawn between the violence of the revol-utionary proletariat ...
The point of all this is to establish that ‘the abuses of the revolution-ary bourgeois force of [ ] ’ should not be confused with ‘the violence of our revolutionary syndicalists’. Syndicalism conceived the transmission of power not in terms of the replacement of one intellectual elite by another but as a process diffusing authority down into t...
It was precisely because in the years after the syndicalist move- ment appeared to effect a compromise with the forces of parliamen-tary socialism that Sorel withdrew his support from it, engaging in a series of publishing enterprises with figures drawn from the antiparliamentary Right. The latter act has been seen as an indi-cation of Sorel’s...
Reflections on Violence remains a profoundly disturbing book. This most obviously derives from the fact that Sorel not only takes viol-ence as his subject but, more importantly, is prepared to equate it with life, creativity and virtue. Was this not Sorel’s own illusion? And was it not, perhaps, one of the illusions that served most to disfigure th...
A wide selection of Sorel’s work is now available in English, mostly translated by the late John L. Stanley: see The Illusions of Progress (Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, ); From Georges Sorel: Essays in Socialism and Philosophy (New York, Oxford University Press, ); Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics ...
November; Georges Sorel born in Cherbourg, a cousin to Albert-Emile Sorel, one of the great historians of the French Third Republic. Moves to Paris and enters the Colle`ge Rollin. Studies at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique. Continues his studies as an engineer with the Ministe`re des Ponts et Chausse ́es. Secures first posting as government e...
Henri Bergson ( – ); philosopher; appointed professor at the Colle`ge de France in ; his principal works included Essai sur les donne ́es imme ́diates de la conscience ( ), Matie`re et me ́moire ( ), L’Evolution cre ́atrice ( ) and Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion ( ). In his day Bergson was the most ...
I Class struggle and violence I. The struggle of poorer groups against rich ones. – The opposition of democracy to the division into classes. – Methods of buying social peace. – The corporative mind. II. Illusions relating to the disappearance of violence. – The mech-anisms of conciliation and the encouragement which it gives to stri-kers.
Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood.
- Georges Sorel, Jeremy Jennings
- 1999
Reflections on Violence Georges Sorel And yet without leaving the present, without reasoning about this future, which seems for ever condemned to escape our reason, we should be unable to act at all. Experience shows that the framing of a future, in some indeterminate time, may, when it is done in a
7 de mar. de 2012 · Sorel addresses the factors underlying revolutionary movements and examines the roles of violence (the revolutionary denial of the existing social order) and force (the state's...
