Author: Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph [1809-1865]
Title: De la justice dans la Révolution et dans l'Église : nouveaux principes de philosophie pratique ... [Tome 1 - 2 - 3]
Description: Paris, Lib. de Garnier frères, 1858. Half-leather. 18x11cm, [1676] pages. THREE VOLUMES. Weighs 1.7 kilos. Foxed.. Worn. Name on half-titles. Volume 3 waterstained. Good. ¶ First edition in somewhat later half leather bindings. Confiscated after publication. Full title reads: "De la justice dans la Révolution et dans l'Église : nouveaux principes de philosophie pratique adressés à son é minence Monseigneur Mathieu, Cardinal-Archevêque de Besancon". Pagination runs [ vol. 1] 520, [vol. 2] 544, [vol. 3] 612 pages["When, in 1858, he persuaded a publisher to bring out his three-volume masterpiece De la justice dans la Révolution et dans l’église, in which he opposed a humanist theory of justice to the church’s transcendental assumptions, his book was seized. Having fled to Belgium, he was sentenced in absentia to further imprisonment...." - from George Woodcock's Britannica entry]. References: Stammhammer I, 190, 36. Nettlau, Geschichte der Anarchie I, 148.

Keywords: Anarchism, Anarchy, Political History, Justice, Law, Politics, , ,