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PHILOSOPHER

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

1809 - 1865

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (UK: , US: , French: [pjɛʁ ʒɔzɛf pʁudɔ̃]; 15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French socialist, politician, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist, using that term, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon has received more than 1,612,062 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is the 98th most popular philosopher (down from 89th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from France (down from 168th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Philosopher.

Proudhon was a French socialist and anarchist who was most famous for his work What is Property? or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 98 out of 1,081. Before him are Tertullian, Johann Gottfried Herder, Anaximenes of Miletus, Walter Benjamin, Mencius, and Zhuang Zhou. After him are Roland Barthes, Ibn Taymiyyah, Theophrastus, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Jacques Derrida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 7. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Braille, and Nikolai Gogol. After him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Liouville, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Among people deceased in 1865, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 3. Before him are Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. After him are Leopold I of Belgium, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emil Lenz, William Rowan Hamilton, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and Heinrich Barth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 184 out of 6,011. Before him are Pope Urban V (1310), François Viète (1540), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Louis de Broglie (1892), Gérard Depardieu (1948), and Jean-Luc Godard (1930). After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Théodore Géricault (1791), Louis VII of France (1120), Alfred Sisley (1839), and Alfred Dreyfus (1859).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ranks 9. Before him are Auguste Comte (1798), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), and Jean Bodin (1530). After him are Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Simone Weil (1909), and Jean Baudrillard (1929).

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