Date of Award

Fall 1977

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Heinz K. Meier

Committee Member

Darwin Bostick

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47 G56

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the place of the thought of Jean Jaures and Georges Sorel in the continuum of the French revolutionary search for a social and political order that would protect individual liberty and guarantee justices Biographical sketches, showing the influences that helped to shape the thought of Jaures and Sorel are followed by an analysis of their concepts of liberty and justice as the motivation for change, The major aspects of the works and careers of each are studied to determine how consistent they were. There was an underlying consistency in their thought. Both were conservative revolutionaries, but neither directly influenced French social and political change. Jaures' rational thought and monistic world view and Sorel's pragmatic, pessimistic thought and pluralistic world view represent the contrast between idealistic revolutionary ideology and the prophecy of totalitarianism,

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DOI

10.25777/1w8m-fj51

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