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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

1809 - 1865

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (UK: , US: ; French: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf pʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to call himself an anarchist, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is the 96th most popular philosopher (down from 94th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from France (down from 172nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Philosopher.

Proudhon was a French socialist and anarchist who was most famous for his work What is Property? or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 96 out of 1,267. Before him are Jürgen Habermas, Mencius, Johann Gottfried Herder, John of Damascus, Aristippus, and George Berkeley. After him are Carl von Clausewitz, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Jean Bodin, Al-Tabari, and Friedrich Fröbel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 8. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, William Ewart Gladstone, and Louis Braille. After him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, Joseph Liouville, Albert Pike, and Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust. Among people deceased in 1865, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 4. Before him are Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Ignaz Semmelweis. After him are Leopold I of Belgium, William Rowan Hamilton, Emil Lenz, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Johann Franz Encke, William Jackson Hooker, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 190 out of 6,770. Before him are Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), Guy of Lusignan (1150), Jean-François Millet (1814), Louis VIII of France (1187), Rudolf Diesel (1858), and Georges Danton (1759). After him are Louis VII of France (1120), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Nicolas Flamel (1330), André Breton (1896), Pope Urban VI (1318), and Pierre Bourdieu (1930).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 9. Before him are Auguste Comte (1798), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), and Roland Barthes (1915). After him are Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), and Paul Ricœur (1913).

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