- Jean Bourdeau
Jean Bourdeau (1848-1928) was a French writer, known for his books on aspects of
socialism . He was also a translator ofSchopenhauer , and an early adopter in France of some of the thought ofNietzsche . He wrote on a wide range of subjects, fromJansen toMaxim Gorky and the rising personality cult ofLenin . He contributed in particular to the "Journal des Débats", on contemporary philosophyHe was a friend and correspondent of
Georges Sorel ; Sorel's side of their correspondence has been published.Works
*"Le socialisme allemand et le nihilisme russe" (1892)
*"L'anarchisme révolutionnaire" (1894) in La Revue de Paris, vol.I
*"La Rochefoucauld" (1895)
*"L'évolution du socialisme" (1901)
*"Socialistes et sociologies" (1905)
*"Poètes et humoristes de l'Allemagne" (1906)
*"Pragmatisme et modernisme" (1909)
*"La philosophie affective. Nouveaux courants et nouveaux problèmes dans la philosophie contemporaine" (1912) Descartes, Schopenhauer, William James, Bergson, Ribot, A. Fouillée, Tolstoy et Leopardi
*"Les maîtres de la pensée contemporaine" (1913) Stendhal, Taine, Renan, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Ruskin, and Victor Hugo
*"Tolstoï, Lénine et la Révolution russe" (1921)
*"La dernière évolution du Socialisme au Communisme" (1927)
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