Jean Bourdeau
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Jean Bourdeau (1848-1928) was a French writer, known for his books on aspects of socialism. He was also a translator of Schopenhauer, and an early adopter in France of some of the thought of Nietzsche. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Jansen to Maxim Gorky and the rising personality cult of Lenin. He contributed in particular to the Journal des Débats, on contemporary philosophy
He was a friend and correspondent of Georges Sorel; Sorel's side of their correspondence has been published.
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- Le socialisme allemand et le nihilisme russe (1892)
- L'anarchisme révolutionnaire (1894) in La Revue de Paris, vol.I
- La Rochefoucauld (1895)
- L'évolution du socialisme (1901)
- Socialistes et sociologies (1905)
- Poètes et humoristes de l'Allemagne (1906)
- Pragmatisme et modernisme (1909)
- La philosophie affective. Nouveaux courants et nouveaux problèmes dans la philosophie contemporaine (1912) Descartes, Schopenhauer, William James, Bergson, Ribot, A. Fouillée, Tolstoy et Leopardi
- Les maîtres de la pensée contemporaine (1913) Stendhal, Taine, Renan, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Ruskin, and Victor Hugo
- Tolstoï, Lénine et la Révolution russe (1921)
- La dernière évolution du Socialisme au Communisme (1927)