Utility and the Workers Movement in Nineteenth-Century Catalonia (1868-1898)

Authors

  • Eduard Pagès Ruiz

Keywords:

Utilitarism, anarchism, catalan, First International, workers

Abstract

This doctoral thesis demonstrates the influence that the utilitarian ethics exerted in the Catalan anarchism from the First International. For the anarchists the concept of public utility became the argument that repeated constantly to demand the social revolution. Even a working newspaper, La Revista Social, published the classic utilitarian text of Baron D’Holbach, "The Universal Moral", to serve as ethical guide for the workers.

Author Biography

Eduard Pagès Ruiz

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Issue

No. 13 (2010): Cercles. A Journal of Cultural History 13.

Section

Monografies i recerques

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