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Le fédéralisme de P.J. Proudhon
by Bernard Voyenne
Review by: Ralph C. Nelson
Source: Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol.
9, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 364-366
Published by: Canadian Political Science Association and the Société québécoise de science
politique
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364
In his frequent sideglances at modern lin sees an emergent will to power which
versions of the ecumenic problem, Voege- seeks unqualified control over society in
lin observes a similar pattern of political the name of one new gospel or another: the
concupiscence. Ideologues such as Hegel, encyclopdlistes' enlightenment, Turgot's pro-
Marx, and Comte construct "systems of gressivism, Comte's positivism, Bakunin's
truth" which deform history in order to anarchism, and Marx's socialism. Within the
justify the tyrannization of men in the pres- doctrine of progress shared by these think-
ent, just as ancient emperors misrepresented ers, there lurks, contends Voegelin, a strain
their terrestrial power in order to control of magic that seeks to reconstitute human
men close at hand. The perennial problem nature in the image of the magicians who
of ecumenicity is that men living in be- have taken the process of history into their
tween the security of cosmological myth own hands. This period provides a prelude
and the uncertainty of transcendent faith to the totalitarian movements of our cen-
will be tempted to create new worlds, using tury, which translated these aspirations into
speculative or military force to do so. concrete action.
This volume combines in a unique way JOHN S. KIRBY
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selon lui, est d'etablir une harmonie entre Une chronologie de la vie et des ceuvres
ses 6lments divers; sa vocation est f6d'ra- de Proudhon est incluse dans l'annexe, de
liste, ce qui ne fut reconnu que vers les meme qu'une bibliographie d6taillie des
annees 70 de ce siecle, c'est-a-dire plus de etudes sur Proudhon.
cent ans plus tard. Proudhon a aussi ete RALPH C. NELSON
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