1st Edition
The Metaphysician of Syndicalism Georges Sorel Beyond Myth and Violence
List of Contributors
Introduction
Eric Brandom and Tommaso Giordani
Section I: History
1. Sorel and the “Syndical Moment” of Legal Thought
Patrice Rolland
2. Socialism in the Fields: Sorel’s Syndical Thought in a Rural Perspective
Alice Ingold
3. The ‘Marxism of Marx’ According to Sorel
Willy Gianinazzi
4. “Pascal has vanquished Descartes”: Sorel and the Religious
Henry Mead
Section II: Receptions
5. The Other of Liberalism: Three Generations of Readers of Sorel in 20th Century Europe
Tommaso Giordani
6. Between Bakunin and Lenin: Georges Sorel and the Spanish Communist-Syndicalists, 1921–1924
Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez
7. A Sceptical Liberal? The Australian Georges Sorel
Geoffrey Robinson
Section III: Myth
8. Myth against Utopia
Eric Brandom
9. Sorel and Mythomania in Interwar France
Kevin Duong
Biography
Tommaso Giordani is an intellectual historian at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. Previously, he was a FIAS fellow at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a post-doc at Tallinn University. He specializes in French and Italian intellectual life in the beginning of the 20th century. He has published articles relating to Sorel’s pragmatism, transnational exchanges between French and Italian Marxists in the late 19th century, and on Bergson and Sorel.
Eric Brandom is a Visiting Assistant Professor and James Carey Research Fellow in the History Department at Kansas State University. He is co-author with Tommaso Giordani of the translation and critical edition Georges Sorel’s “Study on Vico” (2020). In addition to several articles on Sorel, he has published on fin de siècle French liberalism and also on the poetry and political thought of Aimé Césaire.
