Introduction: the Character of Sorel’s Thought

Abstract

For far too long Georges Sorel has had the misfortune to be remembered for one particular and controversial book : Réflexion sur la violence. There is ample evidence to suggest that this approach to Sorel’s work is changing,¹ but it still remains largely the case that scholars have devoted their efforts to the examination of Sorel’s exclusively political, and often syndicalist, writings.