In this chapter I situate Proudhon's social science in the development of nineteenth century French socialism. I explore his debt to the Saint-Simonians, his uneasy relationship with his socialist contemporaries, and his turn to European international politics in his twilight years. The chapter also engages with his anti-Feminism and ...
In this chapter I situate Proudhon's social science in the development of nineteenth century French socialism. I explore his debt to the Saint-Simonians, his uneasy relationship with his socialist contemporaries, and his turn to European international politics in his twilight years. The chapter also engages with his anti-Feminism and anti-Semitism, exploring the centrality of the former to his later social theory and the links between both and his earliest disagreements with Saint-Simonianism.