Sorel: Reflections on Violence

✍ Scribed by Georges Sorel

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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, of enduring importance and interest to all those concerned about the nature of modern politics. This new student edition of Sorel's classic text is accompanied by notes, chronology, and bibliography, as well as a concise introduction to the context and content of this work.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Sorel’s early writings......Page 9
The context of Sorel’s Reflections......Page 10
Philosophical influences......Page 12
Style and methodology......Page 14
Myths......Page 15
Class struggle and violence......Page 16
The revolutionary tradition......Page 18
The general strike......Page 20
Lenin and the Russian Revolution......Page 21
Conclusion......Page 23
Select bibliography......Page 24
Chronology......Page 27
Biographical synopses......Page 30
Note on the text......Page 37
Note on the translation......Page 41
Introduction: Letter to Daniel Halévy......Page 45
I......Page 50
II......Page 57
III......Page 62
IV......Page 66
V......Page 73
Foreword to the third edition......Page 79
Introduction to the first publication......Page 81
I......Page 89
II......Page 96
I......Page 107
II......Page 113
III......Page 121
I......Page 129
II......Page 135
III......Page 143
IV......Page 148
I......Page 151
II......Page 161
III......Page 173
I......Page 185
II......Page 192
III......Page 198
IV......Page 207
I......Page 217
II......Page 226
III......Page 237
IV......Page 246
I......Page 257
II......Page 266
III......Page 272
IV......Page 280
V......Page 285
I......Page 295
II......Page 298
III......Page 305
IV......Page 310
V......Page 315
Appendix II: Apology for violence......Page 321
Appendix III: In defence of Lenin......Page 325
INDEX......Page 337

✦ Subjects

Социологические дисциплины;Первоисточники по социологии;Сорель Жорж;