Research Catalog

Title

The principle of federation / by P.-J. Proudhon ; translated and introduced by Richard Vernon.

Author

Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph), 1809-1865.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vernon, Richard, 1945-

Description

xlvii, 86 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Canadian university paperbooks ; 232

Uniform Title

• Du principe fédératif. Selections. English
• Canadian university paperbooks ; 232.

Alternative Title

Du principe fédératif.

Subjects

• Federalisme
• Politics and government
• Federal government
• federal government
• Federal Government
• France > Politics and government

Note

• Translation of the 1st pt. and the 1st chapter of the 2d pt. of Du principe fédératif et de la nécessité de reconstituer le parti de la révolution.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Notes to the introduction -- The principle of federation and the need to reconstitute the party of revolution -- Part One -- 1. Political dualism -- authority and liberty: opposition and interconnection of the two ideas -- 2. a priori conceptions of political order: regime of authority, regime of liberty -- 3. Forms of government -- 4. Compromise between the principles: origins of political contradictions -- 5. De facto governments: social dissolution -- 6. The political problem posed: the principle of a solution -- 7. Isolation of the idea of federation -- 8. A progressive constitution -- 9. What has delayed federation: factors hindering the idea -- 10. Political idealism: efficacy of federal guarantees -- 11. Economic sanctions: the argo-industrial federation -- Part Two -- 1. The Jacobin tradition: federalist Gaul, monarchical France -- Translator's notes on the text.

ISBN

• 0802054587
• 9780802054586
• 0802063659
• 9780802063656

LCCN

79004192

OCLC

• ocm04804866
• 4804866
• SCSB-7381

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library