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Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of
Rousseau s life, selections from his Confessions, and comments on
Rousseau s work and character from such illustrious contemporaries
and early critics as Voltaire, Hume, Boswell and Johnson, Paine,
Kant, and Proudhon. Commentaries includes assessments of Rousseau s
political thought by a wide variety of scholars and critics
including Judith Shklar, Robert Nisbet, Simone Weil, and Benjamin
R. Barber."
Alan Ritter examines the writings of Proudhon concerned with the
theme that Proudhon, though a radical, was a realist and moralist,
and that the difficulties he faced are those faced by any radical
who confronts fact and has a conscience. Originally published in
1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Alan Ritter examines the writings of Proudhon concerned with the
theme that Proudhon, though a radical, was a realist and moralist,
and that the difficulties he faced are those faced by any radical
who confronts fact and has a conscience. Originally published in
1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
The central claim of anarchism is that government, being the chief
cause of human misery, must be replaced by a stateless society of
strongly independent persons who are strongly bound together in a
group. In an anarchist social order, individual and communal
tendencies, now often contradictory, become mutually reinforcing so
as to create a nurturing environment. The main purpose of this 1980
book is to vindicate this argument as presented by leading
anarchists: William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael Bakunin
and Peter Kropotkin. Early chapters are devoted to proving the
anarchists consistent in seeking to combine the greatest individual
development with the greatest communal unity. Later chapters show
the plausibility of the various anarchists' models of the good
society, of their criticisms of established institutions and of
their strategies for creating an anarchist social order. The
analysis presented accords the anarchists a leading voice in the
debate among political theorists over how to create and organize a
just society.
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