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Louis Auguste Blanqui (French pronunciation: [lwi oɡyst blɑ̃ki]; 8 February 1805 – 1 January 1881) was a French socialist, political philosopher and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism. Biography. Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805–1848)
In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the Stars in the last months of 1871 while incarcerated in Fort du Taureau, a marine cell of the English Channel.
Nov 12, 2018 · Blanqui’s Eternity by the Stars is a must read for anyone who has been enthralled by Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, or Borges. Chouraqui’s perceptive and erudite introduction and notes clarify the logic of the argument, Blanqui’s reception by major thinkers, and the context of the essay’s composition in solitary confinement following the ...
Feb 9, 2017 · Karl Marx credited Louis-Auguste Blanqui as “the brains and inspiration of the proletarian party in France.” Though largely forgotten today, revolutionaries across the globe once viewed this nineteenth-century French political prisoner as a hero of revolutionary socialism.
- Blanqui’S Bifurcationspeter Hallward
- The Astronomical Hypothesis
- Benjamin’s Blanqui
- Blanqui’S Voluntarism
- Notes
Auguste Blanqui’s Eternity by the Stars (1872) is perhaps the only text, across the scattered fragments of his œuvre, that poses a genuine problem of interpretation.1 How could this ultra-voluntarist revolutionary come to embrace a vision of the cosmos based on endless repetition and the eternal recycling of monotonous variation? Blanqui committed ...
The astronomical hypothesis proposed in Eternity by the Stars is easily summarized. Blanqui’s point of departure is to airm the universe as ‘ininite in time and space: eternal, boundless, and indivisible’.28 The whole of what follows depends on the vertiginous implications that Blanqui draws from this irst assertion, and his quintessentially pre-Ca...
Understandably, perhaps, Blanqui’s politically minded readers have generally paid little attention to his one-of exercise in amateur cosmology. Maurice Dommanget’s magisterial survey of his social and political thought hardly mentions Eternity, and Samuel Bernstein’s book on Blanqui (which remains the most detailed English-language study) considers...
This is the point that Benjamin’s pessimistic interpretation of Eternity fails to grasp, and that needs to be remembered if we are to make proper sense of its place in Blanqui’s broader project. For Blanqui, unlike Nietzsche (to say nothing of a neo-Nietzschean naturalist like Deleuze), there is simply no common measure between cosmic or natural ne...
1. Louis-Auguste Blanqui, L’Éternité par les astres: Une hypothèse astrononmique (1872), in Blanqui, Maintenant il faut des armes, ed. Dominique Le Nuz, La Fabrique, Paris, 2007, pp. 317–82; translated by Matthew H. Anderson as Eternity According to the Stars in New Centennial Review, vol. 9, no. 3, Winter 2009, pp. 3–60. Page references are to th...
Blanqui believed that progress was the advance of enlightenment over ignorance, atheism over religion, science over superstition, and association and cooperation over individualism. He disavowed theories of progress that justified the existing order and the reign of the bourgeoisie.
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Sep 21, 2024 · Overview. Louis Auguste Blanqui. (1805—1881) Quick Reference. (1805–81) French radical thinker and revolutionary leader. He launched an attack on the Paris Hotel de Ville in 1839. Sentenced to death, his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. A brief period of freedom allowed him to lead the republicans in the Revolution of 1848.
