Proudhon et Dieu

le combat d'un anarchiste, suivi de, Pascal, Proudhon, Péguy

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Proudhon et Dieu

le combat d'un anarchiste, suivi de, Pascal, Proudhon, Péguy

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Proudhon et Dieu : cette confrontation étonnera, et peut-être détonnera, auprès de ceux qui ne connaissent guère du plus méconnu des grands socialistes du XIXe siècle que sa célèbre apostrophe : « La propriété, c'est le vol. » En revanche, on cite peu la formule non moins paradoxale qui lui fait pendant : « Dieu, c'est le mal. » Il existe pourtant entre l'une et l'autre un lien étroit, qui est la volonté de purger du poison absolutiste l'ensemble des relations humaines. Issu d'une famille dont la pauvreté a laissé peu de place à la dévotion, le jeune Pierre Joseph Proudhon fut un catholique semblable à la plupart de ses contemporains jusqu'à sa quinzième année. S'il « perdit » alors la foi, scandalisé par l'indifférence de la hiérarchie catholique à la condition des pauvres, il n'abandonna pas pour autant toute inquiétude religieuse. Au contraire, on le voit, influencé par le courant traditionaliste et, sous l'emprise de la jeune fille qui paraît avoir été son unique amour, s'imaginer l'apologiste d'un christianisme qui, dégagé des compromissions politiques, se ferait hardiment réformateur de l'ordre social. Mais cela ne concerne encore que l'extérieur. L'autre côté des choses est que, même après s'être proclamé avec véhémence le négateur d'un Être suprême qui limiterait la liberté de sa création, il n'a jamais cessé de s'interroger sur l'existence de ce Dieu, sa nature et surtout son rôle dans le concert de l'histoire. Celui qui, précédant un Nietzsche et par certains aspects l'annoncant, s'était proclamé le contempteur de Dieu en a aussi rêvé la présence derrière une porte semblant sur le point de s'entrouvrir. Il lui est alors arrivé de s'écrier : « Qui est là ? », dans une angoisse peut-être proche de l'espérance.

Proudhon and God: this confrontation will astonish, maybe even shock, those whose only knowledge of the least-known of the great 19th century socialists is his famous remark ‘Property is theft’. Strangely enough, his other famous paradoxical quip, ‘God is evil’ is less often quoted. Yet the two quotations are closely linked, by the desire to purge human relations of absolutist poison. Such is the aim of this book in which the author presents the metaphysical background of Proudhon’s work. Born into a family whose poverty left little room for devotion, the young Pierre Joseph Proudhon was a Catholic, like most of his contemporaries, until the age of fifteen. If he then ‘lost faith’, scandalised by the indifference of the Catholic hierarchy to the living conditions of the poor, he did not give up all interest in religion. On the contrary, we see him submit to the influence of a traditionalist current, and that of a young woman, who seems to have been his only love, imagining himself as an apologist of a Christianity purged of its political compromises; a robust reformer of the social order. But that’s only the superficial appearance. On the inside, we can observe that even after vehemently proclaiming the negation of any Supreme Being that would limit the liberty of his creation, Proudhon never ceased to ask himself questions about the existence of God, His nature and especially His role in the great concert of history. He who, in advance of Nietzsche and in many ways heralding him, proclaimed himself to be the denigrator of God, also dreamed of God’s presence behind a door that seemed to be slightly ajar… At that moment, he cried out, ‘Who’s there?’ with anguish that was perhaps mingled with hope.

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2004, Editions du Cerf
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-168).

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Cerf Histoire
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Pascal, Proudhon, Péguy

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HX893.7.P78 V68 2004

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168 p. ;
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