Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

238 Pages·2013·1.09 MB·English

by  Alex Prichard

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SERIES
JUSTICE, ORDER AND ANARCHY
The international political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Alex Prichard
Justice, Order and Anarchy
This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theoryof war
and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings
of anarchy in international relations. Although anarchy is arguably the
core concept of the discipline of International Relations, scholarship has
largely ignored the insights of the first anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Proudhon’s anarchism was a critique of the projects of national unification,
universal dominion, republican statism and the providentialism at the heart
of enlightenment social theory. While his break with the key tropes of
modernity pushed him to the margins of political theory, Prichard links
Proudhonbackintotherepublicantraditionofpoliticalthoughtfromwhich
his ideas emerged, and shows how his defence of anarchy was a critique of
the totalising modernist projects of his contemporaries. Given that we are
today moving beyond the very statist processes Proudhon objected to, his
writings present an original take on how to institutionalise justice and order
in our radically pluralised, anarchic international order. Rethinking the
conceptandunderstandingofanarchy,Justice,OrderandAnarchywillbeof
interest to students and scholars of political philosophy, anarchism and
international relations theory.
Alex Prichard is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of
Exeter.
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Justice,OrderandAnarchy
Theinternationalpolitical theoryofPierre-JosephProudhon
AlexPrichard
Justice, Order and Anarchy
The international political theory of
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Alex Prichard
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2.Anarchism.3.Mutualism.4.Socialjustice.I.Title.
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Contents
Series editor’s foreword x
Acknowledgements xii
1 Retrieving Proudhon 1
2 Anarchy and contemporary IR theory 19
3 National unity and the nineteenth-century European
equilibrium 42
4 War, providence and the international order in the
thought of Rousseau, Kant and Comte 67
5 From providence to immanence: force and justice in
Proudhon’s social ontology 91
6 The historical sociology of war: order and justice in
Proudhon’s La Guerre et la Paix 112
7 Anarchy, mutualism and the federative principle 135
8 Anarchy is what we make of it: rethinking justice,
order and anarchy today 156
Notes 168
Bibliography 191
Index 213