[These draft translations are part of on ongoing effort to translate both editions of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church into English, together with some related works, as the first step toward […]
HUITIÈME ÉTUDE CONSCIENCE ET LIBERTÉ CHAPITRE PREMIER. Objections théologiques : Qu’il s’agit moins de donner les formules de la Justice que d’en procurer l’observance, laquelle ne peut se passer de religion. I ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE […]
One key challenge for modern readers of Proudhon’s Justice is that the sections where he presumably provides his mature “solution of the social problem,” his account of basic social relations organized according to principles of immanent justice, are also the sections where his anti-feminism poses the most significant challenges for us. The account itself is hardly a mystery. I translated the “Catechism of Marriage” late in that 2014 campaign. Proudhon’s appropriation of the androgyne theory that had been popular in Saint-Simonian circles is straightforward enough — and, I think, there are also very few obstacles to making of it something useful, which dispenses with the particular forms of biological essentialism that we cite among the sources of the problem in Proudhon’s work. What does seem to remain a bit mysterious is a fairly wide range of details, through which Proudhon moved from some biological notions of dubious validity to a theory of social organization that is in some ways tantalizingly close to what we might hope for from an anarchist social science. […]
Written sometime around 1858, since Proudhon cites the recent publication of 1848 : Historical revelations: inscribed to Lord Normanby, which appeared in that year, “Qu’est-ce que enfin que la République?” seems to have remained an […]
SEPTIÈME ÉTUDE LES IDÉES I ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — N°7. DE LA JUSTICE DANS LA RÉVOLUTION ET DANS L’ÉGLISE. SEPTIÈME ÉTUDE. LES IDÉES. À Son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. Monseigneur, Jésus […]
[These draft translations are part of on ongoing effort to translate both editions of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and in the Church into English, together with some related works, as the first step toward […]
Work on the translation of Proudhon’s Justice in the Revolution and the Church continues steadily and is now well ahead of the schedule I had set myself, despite a bout of the still-lurking plague complicating matters in March. Today, I started translating the Fifth Study, on education and the draft files for the project contain roughly 411,000 words (1280 double-spaced pages) of new or previously unshared translation. […]
CINQUIÈME ÉTUDE DE L’ÉDUCATION À Son Éminence Mgr Matthieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besançon. I Monseigneur, Napoléon Ier dit dans ses mémoires : « Mon enfance n’eut rien de remarquable ; je n’étais qu’un enfant curieux et obstiné. » C’est justement […]
QUATRIÈME ÉTUDE L’ÉTAT CHAPITRE PREMIER. Phénomène de l’instabilité des gouvernements. Antipathie de la conscience humaine pour le pouvoir. — Position du problème politique. I ESSAIS D’UNE PHILOSOPHIE POPULAIRE. — N° 4. DE LA […]
On ordinary Sundays, for about three-quarters of the year, the Miserere serves as the introit, or, as one might say, the entrance to the mass. The celebrant, before making the lustral sprinkling, a ceremony preserved from the pagan ritual (among the Jews the sprinkling was done with blood), intones the seventh verse, Asperges me; the choir finishes the antiphon, and all the people respond: Miserere. Neither of them know what they are saying: isn’t it time to teach them? […]
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