Georges Sorel
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson, and later William James.
Background
- Born in
- Cherbourg
- Educated at
- École polytechniqueCollège-lycée Jacques-Decour
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Trending topics shown first"It seems that it was the Jews who had entered the who are primarily responsible for the terroristic measures blamed upon the bolsheviks. This hypothesis appears to me to be all the more reasonable giv…"
"Revolutionary keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place."
"All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’."
"are not descriptions of things, but expressions of a determination to act… A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical with the convictions of a group, being the expression of these con…"
"And so I am not concerned to justify the perpetrators of violence but to enquire into the function of the violence of the working classes in contemporary socialism."
"It is very difficult to understand proletarian violence as long as we try to think in terms of the ideas disseminated by bourgeois philosophy; according to this philosophy, violence is a relic of barb…"
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Timeline
1847
Born
Birth1922
Died
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