PROUDHON, PIERRE-JOSEPH

born Jan. 15, 1809, Besanon, Fr. died Jan. 19, 1865, Paris French libertarian socialist and journalist whose doctrines became the basis for later radical and anarchist theory. Additional reading Five books in English on Proudhon give a comprehensive view of his life and theories: D.W. Brogan, Proudhon (1934); Henri de Lubac, Proudhon et le christianisme (1945; The Un-Marxian Socialist: A Study of Proudhon, 1948); George Woodcock, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1956, reprinted 1969); Alain Ritter, The Political Thought of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1969); and Robert L. Hoffman, Revolutionary Justice: The Social and Political Theory of P.-J. Proudhon (1972). Relatively little of Proudhon's own writing has been translated into English; in addition to What Is Property? (including Warning to Proprietors), The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, and System of Economic Contradictions, there are only two volumes of selections: Proudhon's Solution of the Social Problem (1927) and Selected Writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1969).