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Fascism. Georges Eugène Sorel ( / səˈrɛl /; French: [sɔʁɛl]; 2 November 1847 – 29 August 1922) was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. [2] [3] His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Georges Sorel (born November 2, 1847, Cherbourg, France—died August 30, 1922, Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French Socialist and revolutionary syndicalist who developed an original and provocative theory on the positive, even creative, role of myth and violence in the historical process. Sorel was born of a middle-class family and trained as a ...
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May 14, 2018 · Georges Sorel, French political thinker, was born in Cherbourg in 1847 and died in Boulogne-surSeine, near Paris, in 1922. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he was a successful engineer in the government department of Fonts et Chaussees until 1892. He then retired to the suburbs of Paris and for the next thirty years lived modestly, taking ...
Georges-Eugène Sorel was born in Cherbourg, Normandy, in the coastal region of western France, on November 2, 1847. His parents were Catholic and middle-class; his father was the director of a ...
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson, and later William James. His notion of the power of myth in collective agency inspired ...
SOREL, GEORGES (1847 – 1922). Georges Sorel, the French pragmatist philosopher and social theorist, was born in Cherbourg and was trained at the É cole Polytechnique. He served as an engineer with the French roads and bridges department for twenty-five years in Corsica, the Alps, Algeria, and Perpignan before retiring at the age of forty-five to devote himself to scholarship.
Georges Eugène Sorel was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. Politically he evolved from his early liberal-conservative positions towards Marxism, social-democracy, and eventually syndicalism. Between 1909 and 1910 he was marginally involved with Charles Maurras' Action ...
