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What Is Property? · Character

Sainte-Beuve

Literary critic and friend of Proudhon mentioned in passing.

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Also known as Sainte Beuve

First appearance: what is property

Sainte-Beuve's tie to Pierre Joseph Proudhon is one of the pressures that moves What Is Property?—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

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With Pierre Joseph Proudhon (friendship): Proudhon and Sainte-Beuve were intellectual friends and correspondents, with Sainte-Beuve later writing a biography of Proudhon. With Pierre Joseph Proudhon (friendship):…

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PJPierre Joseph …GAGauthierFAFallotTOToullierCFCharles FourierSASainte-Beuve

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  • Friendship
  • Other

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  • Broad intellectual and political spectrum
  • Protagonist
  • Moral and legal authorities

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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

This passage marks the dramatic climax because it reveals the terrifying logical endpoint of property's tyrann…

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