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Proudhon Pierre-Joseph-Marie

Lettre autographe signée de 4 pages rédigée depuis la prison de Sainte-Pélagie

1851

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Year of publication
1851
Place of printing
Paris, Prison de Sainte-Pélagie
Author
Proudhon Pierre-Joseph-Marie
Size
13x20,5cm
Keyword
Histoire|XIXème siècle
Binding description
une feuille
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

- Paris, Prison de Sainte-Pélagie 12 Novembre 1851, 13x20,5cm, une feuille. - Signed handwritten 4-page letter written from the Sainte-Pélagie prison Paris | Prison of Sainte-Pélagie 12 November 1851 | 13 x 20.5 cm | single sheet «I still appear to many people as only the pure and simple negation of what is.» Handwritten signed 4-page letter dated 12 November 1851. 124 lines in black ink. his letter is presented in a chemise and case with paper boards decorated with abstract motifs, the spine of the chemise in green morocco, pastedowns and endpapers of green suede, slipcase signed by Thomas Boichot. Unpublished handwritten letter on progress, signed by Pierre-Joseph-Marie Proudhon, major figure in French social thought, and «the father of anarchy» according to the president of the French Republic, Armand Fallières. he philosopher, imprisoned since 1849, develops his socialist convictions in a virulent and combative style and he condemns the absolutisms of his time. Extraordinary declaration of philosophical, political and social faith from a marginal thinker, whose critical fortune and influence are taken from the likes of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Benjamin Tucker. he letter is written in a fast and dense handwriting, comprising several underlined passages supporting certain philosophical concepts. The first page presents a heading from the newspaper Le Peuple in 1850, one of the four newspapers run by Proudhon under the second Republic, which resulted in him being imprisoned for «inciting hatred of the government,» «provoking the civil war» and «attacking the Constitution and property.» his unpublished letter, dated 12 November 1851, is a passionate and unpublished reflection, close to a letter entitled «De l'Idée de Progrès,» written around ten days later, that Proudhon published with another ("De la Certitude et de son criterium") in the work Philosophie du progrès. This set of texts was composed only two weeks before the final assumption of power from Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, which he immediately opposed. Once released from prison in 1852, Proudhon published the two letters at Lebègue in Brussels in order to escape censorship, which had prohibited the sale of the booklet on French territory. Already having been detained for two years in the jails of the future French emperor, Proudhon writes to Romain-Cornut from Sainte-Pélagie prison, a journalist from La Presse, who had just finished a series of articles on Auguste Comte's positivism (Etudes critiques sur le socialisme, October-November 1851). This letter must be viewed as an admirable four-page plea, or more a confession of his socialist vision of progress, a «social positivism» which is based on the reconsideration of the ancient order: «we withdraw in the face of an intellectual negation, which is the sine qua non condition of further progress.» In this letter, Proudhon attempts to convince his reader of the merits of his convictions, and does not hesitate to employ flattery that contrasts strangely with his usual verve ( «Do not take my word for it, [.] that I have the least desire to influence your opinion, whatever desire I have to conquer a mind as judicious as yours"). During the course of the letter he establishes a balance between his polemical soul and his desire for legitimacy, aspiring to be recognised by his peers no longer as a mere agitator, but as a true philosopher. We are indeed reminded of his famous wit ( «Property is theft!"), his sympathy for the 1848 uprisings as well as his acerbic pamphlets in Le Peuple that consecrated his radical reputation: «I have been, until this day, so foolishly judged, even by the socialists [.] Because I led the criticism of the old principles as far as it could go [.] I still appear to many people as only the pure and simple negation of what is.» Proudhon, however maintains his intention to leave the shields of criticism ("leaving the argument of circumstance for the moment in my new studies") and thus im