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published on July 12, 2019
Joaquin A. Pedroso
https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev201971098
Beyond a ¡°New Intolerance¡±
The Place of Reason in Proudhon¡¯s Anarchism
In this article I tease out a conception of reason in Pierre-Joseph Proudhon¡¯s writings that is both decoupled from Enlightenment notions of human nature, progress, and transcendental truth, as well as auto-critically engaged with the anti-authoritarian Enlightenment ethos of anarchist thought. In so doing, I hope to reveal how the Proudhonian deployment of reason retained a healthy skepticism of foundationalism, philosophical systems-building, and the intellectualism bred of its dogmatic excesses as well as reconsider Proudhon¡¯s relation to our most privileged faculty.