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Georges Sorel

1847 - 1922

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Georges Eugène Sorel (; French: [ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn sɔʁɛl]; 2 November 1847 – 29 August 1922) was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson (whose lectures at the Collège de France he attended), and later William James. His notion of the power of myth in collective agency inspired socialists, anarchists, Marxists, and fascists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Sorel is the 310th most popular philosopher (down from 254th in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from France (down from 664th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Philosopher.

Georges Sorel is most famous for his work on the social and economic causes of revolution.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Georges Sorel ranks 310 out of 1,267. Before him are Celsus, Lev Shestov, Anacharsis, Chilon of Sparta, Synesius, and Roscellinus. After him are Henri Lefebvre, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Félix Guattari, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Alfred Schütz, and Abu Yusuf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Georges Sorel ranks 11. Before him are Otto Wallach, Bram Stoker, Auguste Escoffier, Joseph Pulitzer, Jesse James, and Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria. After him are Jean Casimir-Perier, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Max Liebermann, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Annie Besant, and Radomir Putnik. Among people deceased in 1922, Georges Sorel ranks 17. Before him are Djemal Pasha, Hermann Rorschach, Walther Rathenau, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Ernest Solvay. After him are Vittorio Monti, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Andrey Markov, Paul Deschanel, Michael Collins, and Léon Bonnat.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Sorel ranks 831 out of 6,770. Before him are Maria Schneider (1952), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Robert Nivelle (1856), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Roscellinus (1050). After him are Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), Louise of Savoy (1476), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Henry, Count of Portugal (1066), and Nicolas Fouquet (1615).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Georges Sorel ranks 41. Before him are Sebastian Brant (1458), Raymond Aron (1905), Bruno Latour (1947), Jacques Maritain (1882), Guy Debord (1931), and Roscellinus (1050). After him are Henri Lefebvre (1901), Félix Guattari (1930), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Louis Couturat (1868), René Girard (1923), and Maurice Halbwachs (1877).

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