An anarchist take on royalty

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s evolving assessment of post-revolutionary monarchy, 1839–64. Part II

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ID11345944
AutoresEdward Castleton (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de l’Environnement (MSHE), Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Páginas1-24
Fecha de publicación2024-04-08
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of European Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01916599.2024.2332842
OpenAlexW4394581567
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas27

This second half of a two-part essay examines how Proudhon's ideas about monarchy changed during his 1858–62 Belgian exile and further evolved upon his return to France around the time of the 1863 legislative elections. If Proudhon justified monarchy's role in state formation in the French pre-revolutionary past, he did not want the political liberalization of the Second Empire to lead to a return to a regime ressembling the July Monarchy. He attempted in the final years of his life to develop a theory of constitutional evolution which could explain France's internal political evolution since 1789 and Europe's geopolitical evolution since the Vienna Settlement. This theory was designed to indicate why the teleological logic at work in both national and international developments since the French Revolution spelled the death knell for Napoleon III's regime and pre-empted any regression to those political constitutions which came before the February 1848 Revolution in France. While developing these reflections, Proudhon continued to imagine alternative forms of political and social representation anticipating and influencing the way in which later theories of federalism and corporatism were discussed during the French Third Republic in a context of general dissatisfaction with parliamentary democracy

Ancient history · Art · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Anarchism and Radical Politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence

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