Research Catalog

Title

Radicalism and the revolt against reason : the social theories of Georges Sorel / Irving Louis Horowitz, with a translation of his essay on The decomposition of Marxism. With a preface to this edition relating Sorel's theories to American thought in the 1960's.

Author

Horowitz, Irving Louis.

Publication

Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1968]

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Details

Additional Authors

Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922.

Description

xxii, 264 pages; 21 cm

Series Statement

Arcturus books ; AB46

Subject

• Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
• Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
• Radicalism
• radicalism
• Radicalisme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preliminary observations on the revolt against reason. Men and movements in fin de siècle France. Unity of revelation and revolution / Charles Pèguy -- Irrational state against rational man / Fernand Pelloutier -- Liberation of will from intelligence / Henri Bergson -- State, society and socialism. Magical force of the state -- Socialism and the future of state anarchy -- Socialism and the future of state authority -- Democracy and the role of coercion in human affairs -- Bureaucracy and mass politics -- Sacred and secular history. From factual history to the philosophy of history -- From the philosophy of history to history as myth -- Illusion and reality in human progress -- History and histrionics: the role of violence -- Psychology of action. Political mythology and higher truths -- Science and the inhibition of social activity -- Heroism and virility of sublimity -- Agonies of pragmatic socialism. From political sociology to the sociology of politics -- Sorel and the dilemma of authoritarian politics -- Paradox of power and the collapse of pragmatic socialism

LCCN

68025562

OCLC

• ocm00182062
• 182062
• SCSB-14693688

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library