Revolution and Morale in Modern French Thought
Sorel and the Sorelians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940066 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack J Roth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-205 |
| Publication date | 1963-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286030 |
| OpenAlex | W2314674270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The role of revolution and morale in the careers of Sorel and the Sorelians is a problem in apocalyptic political conceptions: They desired a drastic and total renovation of society. This article aims to establish that Sorel's search was always for such a politico-spiritual conquest; that though the basic pattern of his apocalyptic views was repeated for each of his affiliations, his views nevertheless underwent important evolution; and that his thought and action initiated in France an identifiable and significant Sorelian movement.' How and why did Sorel become a revolutionary? Long before he began to write, there appeared in his background a number of paradoxes which possibly prepared the way for his later intellectual development.2 There were mystical tendencies in his Catholic family environment, yet he turned to a career as an engineer in the civil service; His was an intensely bourgeois appearance and demeanor, yet he lived for over twenty-two years with an illiterate working-class woman whom he considered the inspiration of his work. His sympathies were royalist after the fall of the Second Empire, yet his reading and re-education in social thought drew him to the anarchist Proudhon
Aesthetics · Economic history · Political science · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |