The Illusions Of Progress (1908) - Georges Sorel
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- The Illusions Of Progress (1908) - Georges Sorel
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The Illusions Of Progress (1908) - Georges Sorel
Author: Georges Sorel
Year: 1908
Foreword idea of progress; not even in the form in which he had found it in Marx, there united, as we know, with a millennialist conviction of the imminence of redemptive revolution. The "illusion" of progress would appear to be for Sorel an illusion only when the idea of progress is separated from the primacy of the act. I think we are justified in adding the word "progress" to what Professor Stanley says, in the final words of his introduction, about virtue. For Sorel, progress, like virtue, "belongs only to those who act." Nothing more, surely, needs to be said to indicate the profound relevance of this book to ongoing movements of thought and action in our own day.