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says itself, for the demonic always contains the truth in reverse” (JP
6:6256).
- De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans L’Eglise, volume i, p. 448.
Cited in de Lubac, The Un-marxian Socialist, p. 265 n.1. - “Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argu-
ment”. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property? An Inquiry into
the Principle of Right and of Government, p. 14 (hereafter WP). - De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans L’Eglise, volume iii,
p. 302. Cited in de Lubac, The Un-marxian Socialist, p. 271 n.28. - WP, p. 22.
- WP, p. 23.
- WP, p. 30.
- WP, p. 24.
- WP, p. 281.
- There may be some resonance at this point between Proudhon’s
exclusion of God from morality and Emmanuel Levinas’ plea for eth-
ics as inter-subjective response to the face of the human (wholly) oth-
er, rather than as the vertical response to the heteronomous Divine
Command of a Wholly Other God issued from “beyond”. For a recent
treatment of Levinasian ethics of anarchism—though one which does
not draw significantly on Proudhon—see Simon Critchley, Infinitely
Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (London
and New York: Verso, 2007). - WP, p. 245. On this question of ontological difference and rela-
tionality between the human and the divine see further my ‘Struggling
with God: Kierkegaard/Proudhon’, pp. 94–95. - WP, p. 245.
- PM, p. 2.
- WP, p. 22.
- PM, pp. 17–31.
- PM, p. 7.
- Letter to abbé X., Jan. 22nd 1849. Cited in de Lubac, The Un-
marxian Socialist, 177.