Jean Bourdeau
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Jean Bourdeau was a French writer, known for his books on aspects of socialism
. He was also a translator of Schopenhauer, and an early adopter in France of some of the thought of Nietzsche. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Jansen
to Maxim Gorky
and the rising personality cult of Lenin. He contributed in particular to the Journal des Débats, on contemporary philosophy
He was a friend and correspondent of Georges Sorel
; Sorel's side of their correspondence has been published.
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
. He was also a translator of Schopenhauer, and an early adopter in France of some of the thought of Nietzsche. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Jansen
Jansen
Jansen may refer to:People*Jansen *Michael Jansen, artist*Theo Jansen, artist*Mark Jansen, musician*Cornelius Otto Jansen, priestPlaces* Jansen, Saskatchewan, Canada* Jansen, Colorado, United States* Jansen, Nebraska, United States...
to Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
and the rising personality cult of Lenin. He contributed in particular to the Journal des Débats, on contemporary philosophy
He was a friend and correspondent of Georges Sorel
Georges Sorel
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists. It is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. Oron J...
; Sorel's side of their correspondence has been published.
Works
- Le socialisme allemand et le nihilisme russe (1892)
- L'anarchisme révolutionnaire (1894) in La Revue de Paris, vol.I
- La Rochefoucauld (1895)
- L'évolution du socialisme (1901)
- Socialistes et sociologies (1905)
- Poètes et humoristes de l'Allemagne (1906)
- Pragmatisme et modernisme (1909)
- La philosophie affective. Nouveaux courants et nouveaux problèmes dans la philosophie contemporaine (1912) Descartes, Schopenhauer, William James, Bergson, Ribot, A. Fouillée, Tolstoy et Leopardi
- Les maîtres de la pensée contemporaine (1913) Stendhal, Taine, Renan, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Ruskin, and Victor Hugo
- Tolstoï, Lénine et la Révolution russe (1921)
- La dernière évolution du Socialisme au Communisme (1927)