Criticism

Greil, Arthur L. Georges Sorel and the Sociology of Virtue. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981, 249 p.

Examines the consistency of Sorel's ethical arguments and moral positions.

Hughes, Henry Stuart. "Georges Sorel's Search for Reality." In Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought 1890-1930. New York: Vintage, 1958, 433 p.

Explores such influences on Sorel's subjectivism as Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.

Humphrey, Richard. Georges Sorel: Prophet without Honor, A Study in Anti-Intellectualism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1951, 244 p.

Discusses Sorel's work as a unified study of human motivation and political science.

Jennings, J. R. Georges Sorel: The Character and Development of His Thought. London: Macmillan, 1985, 209 p.

Considers Sorel as a popularizer of other theorists's works.

Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. "Slogan Text: Sorel." In Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, 214 p.

Considers Sorel's theories the work of a dilettante.

Meisel, James H. The Genesis of Georges Sorel: An Account of His Formative Period Followed by a Study of His Influence. Ann Arbor, Mich.: George Wahr, 1951, 320 p.

Focuses on Sorel's politics and comments on his philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics.

Nye, Robert A. "Two Paths to a Psychology of Social Action: Gustave LeBon and Georges Sorel." The Journal of Modern History 45, No. 3 (September 1973): 411-38.

Traces the similarities between the writings of LeBon and Sorel, concentrating on their theories of politics and the masses.

Roth, Jack Joseph. "The Roots of Italian Fascism: Sorel and Sorelismo." The Journal of Modern History 39, No. 1 (March 1967): 30-45.

Documents Sorel's development as a revolutionary writer, giving particular attention to his influence on Italian Fascism.

_______. The Cult of Violence: Sorel and the Sorelians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980, 359 p.

Discusses such political movements championed by Sorel as Syndicalism, Nationalism, Bolshevism and Fascism, and the impact of his writing through the 1920s and 1930s.

Schecter, Darrow. "Two Views of the Revolution: Gramsci and Sorel, 1916-1920." History of European Ideas 12, No. 5 (1990): 637-53.

Traces Sorel's early affinity and later disenchantment with Marxism.

Stanley, John. The Political & Social Theories of George Sorel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981, 387 p.

Details Sorel's intellectual development.

Sternhell, Zeev, Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri. "Georges Sorel and the Antimaterialist Revision of Marxism." In The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution. Rev. ed. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994, 338 p.

Considers Sorel's views on Marxism.

Vernon, Richard. Commitment and Change: Georges Sorel and the Idea of Revolution. Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 1978, 148 p.

Finds Sorel to be an eccentric figure whose writings are still relevant and misunderstood.

Weber, Eugen. "Power and the Producers." Times Literary Supplement (20 August 1982): 895-96.

Review of John Stanley's The Sociology of Virtue: The Political and Social Theories of Georges Sorel that presents an overview of Sorel's writing and theories.