{"product_id":"the-cult-of-violence-sorel-and-the-sorelians-9780520037724","title":"The Cult of Violence: Sorel and the Sorelians","description":"\u003cp\u003eBRAND NEW FIRST EDITION First Printing hardcover  clean text  solid binding  NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear \/ storage-wear; jacket lacking WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201512395 Written in 1980  this is an excellent  detailed book (359 pages with index) on the philosophies of Georges Sorel. It is perhaps misleadingly titled since the advocacy of violence is only the most striking component of Sorels writing and only one of several key recurrent themes. The book is organized thematically but also in a roughly chronological manner. This is possible because certain political\/ideological movements and concepts predominated different stages of Sorels life: Revolutionary Syndicalism  Integral Nationalism  Bolshevism  and Fascism. Each of these sections is further divided into 3 parts: The Man  The Idea  and The Impact. The last section of the book  Sorelians after Sorel  is divided chronologically into the 1920s (Sorel died in 1922) the 1930s  and The War Years and Conclusion. Why study Sorel when he seems not only wrongheaded  indeed even perverse  but also irrelevant? His erudition and profound sense of inspiration are worth witnessing. Above all  it is fascinating to see how this strange thinker inspired others and  as we say today  was always thinking outside the box. In fact  he worked as an architect of ideas  combining seemingly incompatible boxes to create new structures of thought and hence new perspectives. To study Sorel is to never take for granted again the traditional alignment or clustering of ideas. Roth pulls these disparate ideas together in a coherent way and shows how they changed  how Sorel was moved by historic events and their underlying emotional and \"spiritual\" significance. We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico  Brazil or Italy.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276628844597,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520037723","price":241.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520037724.jpg?v=1780558609","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cult-of-violence-sorel-and-the-sorelians-9780520037724","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}