Sök
Logga in
  • Hem

  • Kategorier

  • Ljudböcker

  • E-böcker

  • Magasin

  • För barn

  • Topplistor

  • Hjälp

  • Ladda ner appen

  • Lös in kampanjkod

  • Lös in presentkort

  • Prova gratis nu
  • Logga in
  • Språk

    • 🇸🇪 Sverige
    • 🇧🇪 Belgique
    • 🇩🇰 Danmark
    • 🇩🇪 Deutschland
    • 🇪🇸 España
    • 🇫🇷 France
    • 🇳🇱 Nederland
    • 🇳🇴 Norge
    • 🇦🇹 Österreich
    • 🇨🇭 Schweiz
    • 🇫🇮 Suomi
  1. Böcker
  2. Historia
  3. Allmän historia

Läs och lyssna gratis i 42 dagar!

Avsluta när du vill

Prova gratis nu
0.0(0)

Reflections on Violence

More than a century after Reflections on Violence first appeared (1908) it remains a remarkably controversial essay. The concept of violence as a means to an end (social, religious, political or for aggrandisement) is hugely challenging as a philosophical subject - yet it is, of course, universally (and frequently) pursued.

The French thinker and political theorist Georges Sorel (1847-1922), fired up by his interest in Marxism and his anger at the injustice of the Dreyfus case, faced this challenge and in the seven chapters of Reflections on Violence he explored the question. It proved sufficiently stimulating over succeeding decades to be espoused by both Marxists and Fascists alike: class struggle, revolution and above all radical change were central to Sorel’s thought.

He acknowledges in his introduction: ‘...the normal development of strikes has included a significant number of acts of violence; but certain learned sociologists seek to disguise a phenomenon that everyone who cares to use his eyes must have noticed.’ Widely read (he regarded himself as self-educated), Sorel drew on many sources as he covered the ground, including Nietzsche, Proudhon, Marx, Eduard von Hartmann and Henri Bergson. He espoused a view of ‘myth’ as a driving impetus - heroic acts by ‘a whole band of companions’ - for change. Confrontation cannot be avoided. It has been suggested that Sorel’s regard for unequivocal confrontation was based more on impassioned conviction than direct physical violence, but it may be difficult to slip this past his many calls for ‘direct aggression'. He writes, ‘Proletarian violence, carried on as a pure and simple manifestation of the sentiment of the class struggle, appears thus as a very fine and very heroic thing; it is at the service of the immemorial interests of civilisation; it is not perhaps the most appropriate method of obtaining immediate material advantages, but it may save the world from barbarism.’

Translation: T E Hulme.

Ljudbok

  • Publicerad: 2021-04-21

  • Språk: Engelska

  • Förlag: Ukemi Audiobooks from W. F. Howes Ltd

  • ISBN: 9781004134533


Författare:

  • Georges Sorel

Uppläsare:

  • Charles Armstrong

Format:

  • Ljudbok

Längd:

  • 8 tim 41 min

Språk:

Engelska

Kategorier:

  • Historia
  • Allmän historia
  • Religion och tro
  • Religion
  • Samhälle och politik
  • Politik

Andra har också läst

Hoppa över listan
  1. Post-Liberalism : Recovering A Shared World

    Fred Dallmayr

    audiobook
  2. Reflections on the Mind of Plato

    Joseph Norio Uemura

    audiobook
  3. Swedish and German Liberalism: From Factions to Parties 1860-1920

    Martin Åberg

    book
  4. Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)

    Thomas Nagel

    audiobook
  5. The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump

    Stanley Fish

    audiobook
  6. The Psychology of Hashish

    Aleister Crowley

    book
  7. Numbers

    Peter M. Higgins

    audiobook
  8. The Moral Powers

    Peter M. Hacker

    audiobook
  9. Critique of Judgement

    Immanuel Kant

    book
  10. An essay in defence of the female sex : In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady

    Mary Astell, Judith active 1696-1707 Drake

    book
  11. Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

    Sebastian Grebe

    book
  12. Meningens Logik

    Gilles Deleuze

    book

Hjälp och kontakt


Om oss

  • Vår historia
  • Karriär
  • Press
  • Tillgänglighet
  • Samarbeta med oss
  • För investerare
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Utforska

  • Kategorier
  • Ljudböcker
  • E-böcker
  • Magasin
  • För barn
  • Topplistor

Populära kategorier

  • Deckare
  • Biografier och reportage
  • Romaner
  • Feelgood och romance
  • Personlig utveckling
  • Barnböcker
  • Sanna berättelser
  • Sömn och avslappning

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Integritetspolicy · Användarvillkor ·
Utmärkt4.3 av 5