Reflections on Violence
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Traducció:
- T. E. Hulme
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~110.000 paraules · 541 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAGeorges Sorel. (n.d.). Reflections on Violence (T. E. Hulme, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/georges-sorel/reflections-on-violence
- MLAGeorges Sorel. Reflections on Violence. Translated by T. E. Hulme. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/georges-sorel/reflections-on-violence.
- ChicagoGeorges Sorel. Reflections on Violence. Translated by T. E. Hulme. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/georges-sorel/reflections-on-violence.
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De què tracta
El llibre del 1908 en què Sorel defensa la vaga general no com una tactica sino com un «mite»: una imatge que mou els homes a actuar encara que no s'hagi de realitzar mai tal com se la imaginen.
Context i història
Es un dels textos mes incomodes del corpus, i convé dir per que. Sorel venia del marxisme i el trobava massa racionalista: sostenia que les masses no es mouen per calculs sino per imatges totals, i que el sindicalisme revolucionari havia de conservar la seva capacitat de conflicte en comptes de negociar-la. Distingia la «violencia» proletaria de la «força» de l'Estat, i menyspreava la democracia parlamentaria com una manera d'apagar el conflicte. Aquestes idees van ser recollides tant per l'esquerra sindicalista com pel feixisme italia, i Sorel mateix va simpatitzar amb Lenin al final de la seva vida. Es al corpus perque es una peca real de la historia de les idees, i s'ha de llegir sabent on va anar a parar.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
My Reflections on Violence have irritated many people on account of the pessimistic conception on which the whole of the study rests ; but I know that you do not share this impression ; you have brilliantly shown in your Histoire de quatre ans that you despise the deceptive hopes with which the weak solace themselves. We can then talk pessimism freely to each other, and I am happy to have a correspondent who does not revolt against a doctrine without which nothing very great has been accomplished in this world. I have felt for some time that Greek philosophy did not produce any great moral result, simply because it was, as a rule, very optimistic. Socrates was at times optimistic to an almost unbearable degree. The aversion of most of our contemporaries from every pessimistic conception is doubtless derived, to a great extent, from our system of education. The Jesuits, who created nearly ever5^hing that the University still continues to teach, were optimists because they had to combat the pessimism which dominated Protestant theories, and because they popularised the ideas of the Renaissance ; the Renaissance interpreted antiquity by means of the philosophers, and consequently misunderstood the masterpieces of tragic art so completely that our contemporaries have had considerable difficulty in rediscovering their pessimistic significance.^ 1 " The significant melancholy found in the masterpieces of Hellenic art prove that, even at that time, gifted individuals were able to peer through the illusions of life to which the spirit of their own surrendered itself without the slightest critical reflection " (Hartmann, The Philosophy of the Unconscious, Eng. trans., vol. iii. p. 78 ; ii. p. 436).…