The Anarchē of Spirit^275- De la Justice dans la Révolution et dans L’Eglise, volume iii, 179.
Cited in de Lubac, The Un-marxian Socialist, 265. - Proudhon asserts that “Providence in God is a contradiction with-
in a contradiction; it was through providence that God was actually
made in the image of man; take away this providence, and God ceases
to be man, and man in turn must abandon all his pretensions to di-
vinity” (PM, p. 462). Through this Proudhon also affirms a critique of
Feuerbach’s own scandalous assertion that “Consciousness of God is
self-consciousness, knowledge of God is self-knowledge.” The Essence
of Christianity, p. 12. For Proudhon “[H]umanism is a religion as
detestable as any of the theisms of ancient origin” (PM, p. 457). See
further my ‘Struggling with God: Kierkegaard/Proudhon’, pp. 95–96. - See further the erudite discussion of Proudhon in Bernard Schweizer,
Misotheism: The Untold Story of Hating God (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011), pp. 40–47. Schweizer refers to Proudhon’s
1846 Philosophie de la misère as the “earliest and possibly the most
radical and shocking manifestation” of a “politically inspired misothe-
ism” (p. 40) and Proudhon himself as “a titan of misotheism” (p. 46). - Philosophie de la misère, volume ii, p. 253. Cited in de Lubac,
The Un-marxian Socialist, p. 179. - PM, p. 137.
- PM, p. 450.
- PM, p. 458.
- PM, p. 83.
- PM, pp. 84–5.
- Woodcock, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, p. 205.
- PM, p. 461.
- PM, pp. 463–4.
- PM, p. 465. “If God and man are opposed to each other, they are
by that very fact necessary to each other”. Letter to Guillaumin, Nov.
21 st 1846. Cited in The Un-Marxian Socialist, pp. 177–178. - “[N]either is more than the other; they are two incomplete re-
alities, which have not the fullness of existence.” Notebook (1846).
Cited in de Lubac, The Un-Marxian Socialist, p. 178 n.48.