Sorel: Reflections on Violence

Georges Sorel author Jeremy Jennings editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:4th Nov '99

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A CTPT rendition of a controversial and important text.

Georges Sorel's Reflections On Violence (1908) remains a controversial text to this day, unashamedly advocating the use of violence to bring down capitalism. Jeremy Jennings' edition includes an introduction, chronology and notes, to enable the student to grasp the essentials of this important thinker.Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is 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 re-invigorating the capitalist spirit of a timid bourgeoisie. This edition of Sorel's classic text is accompanied by an editor's introduction by Jeremy Jennings, a leading scholar of political thought, both setting the work in its context and explaining its major themes. A chronology of Sorel's life and a list of further reading are included.

ISBN: 9780521551175

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm

Weight: 550g

348 pages