Avant-gardes

L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) is a philosophical and literary series dedicated to radical tendencies in the arts as well as in the spheres of society, rejecting the fraudulent separation between aesthetic innovation and social transformation (fundamental writings, complete works, anthologies, essays, biographies).

Series founded by Michel Giroud.

$Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale$

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Du principe de l'art et de sa destination sociale

2002

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.

$Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire$

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Les confessions d'un révolutionnaire

2002

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.

$Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)$

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c'est le vol ! ») – (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d'époque sur le droit d'auteur)

2002

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..

Bernard Réquichot
Ecrits divers – Journal, lettres, textes épars, Faustus, poèmes, 1951-1961

2002

French edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.

$Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées$

Charles Fourier
Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées

2001

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.

$Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1$

Charles Fourier
Théorie de l'unité universelle – Tome 1

2001

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

$Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2$

Charles Fourier
Théorie de l'unité universelle – Tome 2

2001

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

Jean-Pierre Brisset
Œuvres complètes

2001

French edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

A monument for both linquists and writers.

Marc Décimo
Jean-Pierre Brisset – Prince des penseurs, inventeur, grammairien et prophète

2001

French edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.

Hugo Ball
Hermann Hesse – Sa vie, son œuvre

2000

French edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes

$Simone Debout - L\'utopie de Charles Fourier$

Simone Debout
L'utopie de Charles Fourier

1998

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental

An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."