BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT
TO THE THIRD EDITIONThe years immediately preceding the publication of my Pierre-
Joseph Proudhon in 1956 were a time of special activity in the study
of Proudhon, particularly in France; the many b(X)ks on him and
the collections of his fugitive writings that appeared during the
1940 s and early 1950 s are noted in the bibliography to the original
edition of this work. The rediscovery of Proudhon played an important
part in France’s rediscovery of itself during the years of resistance
and the first decade of liberation. As some of the titles listed below
will suggest, there was a second rediscovery of Proudhon in the late
1960s and early 1970 s which followed the great student rebellion
in Paris during 1968 , when Proudhon’s name and memory, like
those of Bakunin, were frequently invoked.
Since 1956 , several important general histories of anarchist thought
and activity have appeared in which Proudhon’s position in the
tradition is established. These include my own Anarchism (Cleveland,
1962 , revised edition London, 1987 ), and James Joll’s The Anarchists
(Boston, 1964 ), both of which devote chapters to Proudhon and
his influence, and Daniel Guerin’s Anarchisme, of which an English
version (Anarchism, translated by Mary Klopper, with an introduction
by Noam Chomsky) appeared in New York in 1970.
The more important recent English studies of Proudhon include
M arx, Proudhon and European Socialism by J. Hampden Jackson
(London, 1958 ), The Political Thought o f Pierre-Joseph Proudhon by
Alan Ritter (Princeton, 1969 ), The Sociology o f Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
by Constance Mlargaret Hall (New York, 1971 ), and Revolutionary
Justice: The Social and Political Thought of P J. Proudhon by Robert
Louis Hoffman (Urbana, 111 ., 1972 ). The Teaching o f Charles Fourier
by Nicholas J. Riasonovsky (Berkeley, 1969 ) provides important
information on the background out of which Proudhon’s teachings
developed, and a neglected aspect of his thought— the aesthetic