Edward Carpenter

L’autobiographie inédite
de l’un des premiers écosocialistes anglais
« Je crois bien que la nature avait plus d’importance pour moi que n’importe quelle relation humaine »écrit Edward Carpenter à propos de son adolescence.Né en 1844 dans une... Lire la suite

L'utopie est-elle à portée de main ?
Un traité de simplicité volontaire, un livre fort, publié il y a plus d'un siècle, d'une actualité et d'une générosité... Lire la suite

Publié en 1887, ce livre est un réquisitoire contre l’idéal qui prédomine alors en Angleterre?: s’enrichir en fournissant le moins d’efforts possible. Toute une population rêve en effet de parvenir à l’état de consommateur passif qui vit aux... Lire la suite

To find the place of these desires, their utterance, their control, their personal import, their social import, is a tremendous problem to every youth and girl, man and woman.

« Je vis s'élever une vie nouvelle, une société nouvelle. »
Militant socialiste, philosophe et poète, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) fut aussi un fervent défenseur des droits des femmes et des homosexuels. Végétarien, anticapitaliste et libertaire,... Lire la suite

“Anyone who realizes what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of... Lire la suite

Edward Carpenter’s Towards Democracy is well-known as a starting point of his later work. Originally written in 1881 whilst taking a break from lecturing in Universities across the UK, this four-volume poem dwells mainly on themes of freedom and... Lire la suite

Originally published in 1917 in the midst of World War I, Carpenter argues that industry in pre-war Britain was simply exploitation of labour for private gain and attempts to look toward a future with more socialist values. The papers in this study... Lire la suite

Love and Death are two major facets of the whole of human existence and in The Drama of Love and Death, Carpenter attempts to analyse the interplay of love and death in everyday life. Originally published in 1912, this study focuses on how love and... Lire la suite

Published a century ago, Edward Carpenter's essay collection The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife remains amazingly relevant today. Carpenter argues that wealth inequality is the single most pressing social problem facing... Lire la suite

The subject dealt with in this book is one of great, and one may say growing, importance. Whether it is that the present period is one of large increase in the numbers of men and women of an intermediate or mixed temperament, or whether it merely is... Lire la suite

This vintage book contains Edward Carpenter's treatise on homosexuality. Within this treatise, Carpenter expresses his views on homosexuality, or 'uranianism' as he calls it. He explains how he believes that its ostensible increase marks a new age... Lire la suite

Sex Love
Edward Carpenter, english socialist poet, philosopher and anthologist (1844-1929) This ebook presents «Sex Love», from Edward Carpenter. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents
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Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from first-hand experience. In particular, papers focus on the differences between Germany and... Lire la suite

Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), philosophe et poète, est un éminent représentant de l’anarchisme anglais. Proche du mouvement d’inspiration anti-industrielle Arts & crafts de William Morris, il figure aussi parmi les premiers activistes homosexuels.... Lire la suite

The subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as the great multitude of books upon it, published in late years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty to-day in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the material to hand-... Lire la suite

The subject dealt with in this book is one of great, and one may say growing, importance. Whether it is that the present period is one of large increase in the numbers of men and women of an intermediate or mixed temperament, or whether it merely is... Lire la suite

British-born thinker and activist Edward Carpenter proposes a number of novel ideas in this engaging collection of essays. Chief among them is the notion that most of the civilized societies that have emerged throughout human history have crumbled... Lire la suite

The subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as the great multitude of books upon it, published in late years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty today in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the material to hand—and... Lire la suite

British philosopher and activist Edward Carpenter was decades ahead of his time when it came to sensitive subjects like gender relations, equal rights, and acceptance of a broad range of sexual proclivities. In this thought-provoking series of... Lire la suite