{"product_id":"the-principle-of-federation-by-p-j-proudhon-9780802063656","title":"The Principle of Federation by P.J. Proudhon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA widely read and influential text in its own day, P.-J. Proudhon’s \u003cem\u003eDu Principe federatif\u003c\/em\u003e is now often overlooked by students of federalism. Yet the book’s theoretical and general chapters, in the first English translation, can claim to be considered a key text for the history of federalist thinking. Standing at the point of intersection between the anarchist and federalist traditions, they make a passionate case for federalism as the political order which gives the fullest possible expression to liberty – indeed, as the only political order in which liberty can be preserved: ‘The twentieth century will open the age of federations, or else humanity will undergo another purgatory of a thousand years.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProudhon’s federal principle is a radically decentralist one, which contrasts sharply with modern pictures of federalism at many points, what Proudhon calls a ‘federal’ system is what many, today, would regard as the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768056152407,"sku":"9780802063656","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802063656.jpg?v=1758716097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-principle-of-federation-by-p-j-proudhon-9780802063656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}