Carbondale, IL, Estados Unidos : Southern Illinois University Press, c1961.

viii, 264 p. ; 21 cm.

I. Preliminary observations on the revolt against reason. -- II. Men and movements in fin de Siécle France. -- 1. Charles Péguy: The unity of revelation and revolution. -- 2. Fernand Pelloutier: Irrational state against rational man. -- 3. Henri Bergson: The liberation of will from intelligence. -- III. State, society and socialism. -- 1. The magical force of the state. -- 2. Socialism and the future of state authority. -- 3. Democracy and the role of coercion in human affairs. -- 4. Bureaucracy and mass politics. -- IV. Sacred and secular history. -- 1. From actual history to the philosophy of history. -- 2. From the philosophy of history to history as myth. -- 3. Illusion and reality in human progress. -- 4. History and histrionics: the role of violence. -- V. The psychology of action. -- 1. Political mythology and the higher truths. -- 2. Science and the inhibition of social activity. -- 3. The heroism and virility of sublimity. -- VI. The agonies of pragmatic socialism. -- 1. From political sociology to the sociology of politics. -- 2. Sorel and the dilemma of authoritarian politics. -- 3. The paradox of power and the collapse of pragmatic socialism. --

Tomado de la pasta: "This is the study of an era as seen through the theories and associates of the French engineer turned ideologist, Georges Sorel (1847-1922). But to extent that greatness implies the capacity not simply to state the problems of an age but to pose issues for future generations, this is an examination of social doctrines and ideologies that remain very much in the forefront of current struggles for the minds of men. In a preface written especially for this edition, Professor Horowitz discusses Sorel's theories in relation to America of the 1960's, the first American decade in this century to combine political radicalism with irrationalism. As in the age of Sorel, reason has been displaced by passion." --

Incluye: a preface to this edition relating Sorel's theories to American thought in the 1960's.