Selected Writings of Jean Jaurès: On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism

ISBN-13: 9783030719616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Ducange, Jean-Numa

Opis

This book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaurès, a central figure of French socialism in the period leading up to World War I, who was born in 1859 and died in 1914, a few days before the outbreak of the conflict. Jaurès is one of the most celebrated politicians in France. His writings in this anthology touch on the subjects dear to him, which are then some of the great political themes of his time. In this book are writings on war and pacifism, on colonialism and anti-colonialism, and on the central themes of socialism of the time, such as reformism and revolution. Despite Jaurès's notoriety in France, he is not well known abroad. This book, a corpus of his emblematic writings, aims, to make Jaurès known to those who do not know him outside of France.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. The Socialist and Republican

The Socialism of the French Revolution 

For Dreyfus

Collectivism and the Peasants

Jaures to his Constituents

Secular Education

The general strike and universal workers' suffrage

No Ambiguity

2. The Champion of French-German Unity

German Socialism

The Enduring Problem

German controversies 

Revolutionary Germany

Peace and Socialism (Berlin lecture)

3. The Philosopher and the Historian

Idealism and materialism in the conception of history

A Socialist History

The Social Balance-Sheet of the Nineteenth Century

4. Internationalism, Peace and the World

Capitalism and War

For Peace

In the Orient

Aguinaldo and the Philippines

Against the Colonial Policy

Race War

The European Revolution

The Renewal Movement in China

Speech by Citizen Jaures

Turket and Morocco

The New Army

Speech on Asian Emancipation

Speech on Turkey and China

Too Late

On the Need for Sang-Froid

O autorze

Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor in Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen, France, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a specialist in the historiography of the French Revolution, the history of French and German-speaking leftwingers and the history of Marxism. He is co-director of Actuel Marx (PUF).

Elisa Marcobelli is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Picardie, France, and a Research Associate at the EUROSOC Project at the Université de Rouen, France. Her doctoral thesis concerns French, German and Italian socialists' opposition to the war (1889–1915) and was published in 2020.

Blurb

This book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaurès, a central figure of French

socialism in the period leading up to World War I. Born in 1859, and killed in 1914 just a few days before the outbreak of the conflict, Jaurès remains one of the most celebrated politicians in France. His writings in this anthology touch on the subjects most dear to him, which were also some of the great political themes of his time. In this book are writings on war and pacifism, on colonialism and anti-colonialism, and on the central themes of socialism of this era, such as reformism and revolution. Despite Jaurès’s notoriety in France, he is not well known abroad. This book, a corpus of his emblematic writings, aims to make Jaurès known to readers outside France unfamiliar with his work. 

Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor in Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen, France, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a specialist in the historiography of the French Revolution, the history of French and German-speaking leftwingers and the history of Marxism. He is co-director of Actuel Marx (PUF).

Elisa Marcobelli is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Picardie, France, and a Research Associate at the EUROSOC Project at the Université de Rouen, France. Her doctoral thesis concerns French, German and Italian socialists' opposition to the war (1889–1915) and was published in 2020.