person
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Proudhon
also: Прудон
French anarchist philosopher (1809-1865), author of 'What Is Property?' ('property is theft'). Named here alongside Buckle as a stock name for weighty intellectual authority, comically mismatched with the genre of a schoolboy's love letter.
Reading notes
- The Name-Day Party §105 Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), the French anarchist thinker famous for declaring 'property is theft'; Colonel Bukreev cites and then dismisses him as no authority, in the same breath dismissing the French generally, a bit of reflexive provincial chauvinism.
- Something Serious §4 Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French anarchist philosopher ('property is theft'), paired with Buckle as a stock name for weighty, quasi-radical intellectual authority -- exactly the sort of author a schoolboy would name-drop to sound serious in a love letter.