The Right as a Critical Tool

L'outil critique du droit

Vincent Bourdeau ()
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Vincent Bourdeau: Université de Besançon

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Abstract: The article examines how political economy is redefined in socialist and republican circles through a revaluation of the language of right in the nineteenth century, in particular by Proudhon (1809-1865) and Sorel (1847-1922). Both Proudhon and Sorel, the former influencing the latter, see ordinary practices and the sense of justice that accompanies them as a means to build a political economy, which aims to a right form of production and exchange. A reflection on the right as a tool to promote an anti-statist and anti-legalist republicanism, a republicanism of the society, hence a social republicanism emerged in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution and its failure. Proudhon and Sorel were representatives of this current, which was often obscured by a focus on the centralizing institutions of the Third Republic - the Army, the School.

Keywords: Republicanism; political economy; right; Proudhon; Sorel; Républicanisme; économie politique; droit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06-01
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2022, Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique 2022 – 1, n° 13, 2022 – 1 (n° 13), pp.275-313. ⟨10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13254-7.p.0275⟩

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DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13254-7.p.0275

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