‎SOREL GEORGES.‎
‎REFLEXIONS SUR LA VIOLENCE‎

‎Réflexions sur la violence. Sixième édition avec plaidoyer pour Lénine.‎

‎Paris Marcel Rivière, coll. "Etudes sur le devenir social" 1925 1 vol. relié in-12, demi-chagrin miel, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre, tête dorée, couvertures et dos conservés (rel. Jean Raymond), 458 pp. Très bon exemplaire dans une bonne reliure signée.‎

‎Réflexions sur la violence. - [ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY]‎

‎Paris, 1908. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. Minor wear to extremities. An excellent copy. (2), XLIII, (1), 257, (3) pp.‎

‎First edition - uncut, unopened and in original wrappers - of 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. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that were to follow its publication and provided inspiration for Marxists and Fascists alike. Developing the ideas of violence, myth and the general strike, Sorel celebrates the heroic action of the proletariat as a means of saving the modern world from decadence and of reinvigorating the capitalist spirit of a timid bourgeoisie."" (Jeremy Jennings, Introduction to the 1999 Cambridge-edition). Sorel's work is written at the cusp of the seismic changes that would transform the twentieth century, putting an end to the ancien Régime in Europe, and to European global hegemony. An unorthodox Marxist, Sorel focused almost obsessively on the question of the agency required to spark revolutionary change, in contrast to Marxist/socialist contemporaries like Jean Jaurès who saw parliamentary politics as the way to leverage the growing power of the workers' unions into political concessions. In choosing of violence as the theme of his work, Sorel wanted to strike a death blow at reform-minded socialism which was, according to him, guilty of extinguishing the revolutionary fervour of the working class. By suffusing Marx's materialism with Bergson's intuitionism, he argued that violence would, in and of itself, create the revolutionary subject (the working class) and the conditions of revolutionary social change. His work departs from Marxism, and points towards twentieth century Fascism (towards which Sorel himself was ambivalent), inasmuch as it strips the idea of political will of the intellectualist trappings that Marxism inherited from German idealism. Instead, Sorel would tie political will to myth as a motivational force, singling out the myth of the nation as the most potent one of all. His synthesis of nationalism, violence, and faceless political agency was instrumental in laying the groundworks for the radical political movements that became the different strains of twentieth century Fascism. ""Sorel's conclusion was unambiguous: the workers must maintain divisions within society, distancing themselves from the corrupting processes of bourgeois democracy and forsaking social peace in favour of class struggle and confrontation: 'everything may be saved if the proletariat, by their use of violence, manage to re-establish the division into classes and so restore to the bourgeoisie something of its energy'. This followed from Sorel's account of Marxism as a version of 'Manchesterianism': violence, 'carried on as a pure and simple manifestation of the sentiment of class struggle', would disabuse philanthropic employers of their paternal concern for their employees, teaching them to devote themselves to securing the progress of production and nothing more. This, in turn, would restore the fatalite ´ of capitalist development, thereby allowing capitalism to attain its' historicalP erfection and to establish the material foundations of a future socialist society. On this account, proletarian violence appears 'a very fine and heroic thing', serving 'the immemorial interests of civilization'. (Jennings).‎

‎Revue Française de psychanalyse : Violence et DestructionSituation métapsychologique de l'agressivité dans les travaux français (Anne Clancier, Sylvie Faure, Georges Pragier) - Agression et violence (René Diatkine) - De l'interprétation à la pulsion de mort (Ahmed Fayek) - De l'assassinat de Moïse comme immolation de l'instinct de mort (Ilse Barande) - Généalogie de la destruction (Jean Gillibert) - Généalogie de la destructivité (Jean Bergeret) - Brève communication sur le narcissisme, l'agressivité et l'antisémitisme (Béla Grunberger) - L'automutilation dans les états autistiques chez l'enfant: un paradigme de la destuctivité psychotique (Jean Ochonisky) - Violence et "non-digestion" psychique (Hyatt Williams) - Note sur les inscriptions archaïques des prototypes de la violence (Simone Decobert) / Réflexions critiques : La violence fondamentale, de Jean Bergeret (Jacqueline Cosnier) - Parler de la violence (Gilbert Diatkine) - Les livres... - Congrès...‎

‎ 1984 N° 4, Tome XLVIII - juillet-août 1984 - Presse Universitaire de France - 206 pages‎

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‎REFLEXIONS SUR LA VIOLENCE / 8E EDITION AVEC PLAIDOYER POUR LENINE - COLLECTION ETUDES SUR LE DEVENIR SOCIAL IV.‎

‎MARCEL RIVIERE. 1936. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 458 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 300-SCIENCES SOCIALES‎

‎Sommaire : lutte de classe et violence - la décadence bourgeoise et la violence - les préjugés contre la violence - la grève prolétarienne - la grève générale politique - la morale des producteurs - unité et multiplicité - la moralité de la violence . Classification Dewey : 300-SCIENCES SOCIALES‎

‎POLITIQUE AUJOURD'HUI N° 6 - Le VIe plan ou l'hégémonie du capitalisme industriel par A. Granou, Réflexions sur la violence didactique par Jean Paul Sebort et Jean Pierre Rosin, Les fondements historiques du communisme vietnamien par Tran Than Viet, Lutte‎

‎POLITIQUE. Juin 1970. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 128 pages. Quelques photos en noir et blanc dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 320-Science politique‎

‎Sommaire : Le VIe plan ou l'hégémonie du capitalisme industriel par A. Granou, Réflexions sur la violence didactique par Jean Paul Sebort et Jean Pierre Rosin, Les fondements historiques du communisme vietnamien par Tran Than Viet, Lutte de classe et luttes syndicales par Christian Palloix, Le parti communiste tchécoslovaque normalisé, La page blanche (II) par Lucien Bianco Classification Dewey : 320-Science politique‎