The Un-Marxian Socialist: A Study of Proudhon

by Henri de Lubac

  • Year 1945
  • Type Book
  • Genre social ethics
  • Tradition Catholic
  • Original language French

For For readers of nineteenth-century social thought and Christian engagement with socialism; not for readers wanting spiritual reading.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
4 of 5 hard

A study of the anarchist and socialist Proudhon and his struggle with Christianity, written in the same years as The Drama of Atheist Humanism. For historians of ideas.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 3 of 5
  • Scriptural 0 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 5 of 5
  • Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A study of the French socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) and his relation to Christianity, published by Éditions du Seuil in 1945. De Lubac reads Proudhon, a fierce critic of the Church and of God, as a thinker whose quarrel with Christianity was more complex than Marx's, and sets out his thought on God, justice and the human person. The book continues the inquiry of Le drame de l'humanisme athée into the anti-theistic currents of modern thought. R. E. Scantlebury's English translation, The Un-Marxian Socialist: A Study of Proudhon, was published by Sheed and Ward in 1947.

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