PHILOSOPHER

Georges Sorel

1847 - 1922

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Georges Eugène Sorel (; French: [ʒɔʁʒ øʒɛn sɔʁɛl]; 2 November 1847 – 29 August 1922) was a French social thinker, political theorist, historian, and later journalist. He has inspired theories and movements grouped under the name of Sorelianism. His social and political philosophy owed much to his reading of Proudhon, Karl Marx, Giambattista Vico, Henri Bergson (whose lectures at the Collège de France he attended), and later William James. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Sorel has received more than 752,483 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Georges Sorel is the 254th most popular philosopher (up from 271st in 2019), the 664th most popular biography from France (up from 714th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Philosopher.

Georges Sorel is most famous for his work on the social and economic causes of revolution.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Georges Sorel ranks 254 out of 1,267. Before him are Andronicus of Rhodes, Guy Debord, Pelagius, Aśvaghoṣa, Padmasambhava, and Vladimir Solovyov. After him are Hugh of Saint Victor, Anacharsis, Isaiah Berlin, Shen Kuo, William Godwin, and Speusippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Georges Sorel ranks 11. Before him are Otto Wallach, Maria Feodorovna, Jesse James, Auguste Escoffier, Joseph Pulitzer, and Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria. After him are Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Max Liebermann, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, Annie Besant, Jean Casimir-Perier, and Radomir Putnik. Among people deceased in 1922, Georges Sorel ranks 12. Before him are Erich von Falkenhayn, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Fredrik Bajer, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Hermann Rorschach, and Walther Rathenau. After him are Djemal Pasha, Michael Collins, Ernest Shackleton, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Ernest Solvay, and Vittorio Monti.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Sorel ranks 664 out of 6,770. Before him are Frédéric Bastiat (1801), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Raoul Dufy (1877), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Aristide Maillol (1861), and Hubert de Givenchy (1927). After him are Jean Nouvel (1945), Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Édouard Lalo (1823), Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (-90), Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Georges Sorel ranks 34. Before him are Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Roger Garaudy (1913), and Guy Debord (1931). After him are Nicole Oresme (1323), Raymond Aron (1905), Jacques Maritain (1882), François Fénelon (1651), Bruno Latour (1947), and Roscellinus (1050).

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