The Romantic Socialist Origins of Humanitariamism

“Humanitarian” (humanitaire) came into use in French contemporaneously with the emergence of romantic socialism, and in the context of the rebuilding of post-revolutionary French society and its overseas empire beginning in the 1830s. This article excavates this early idea of humanitarianism, documenting an alternative genealogy for the term and its significance that has been overlooked by scholars of both socialism and humanitarianism. This humanitarianism identified a collective humanity as the source of its own salvation, rather than an external, well-meaning benefactor. Unlike liberal models of advocacy, which invoked individualized actors and recipients of their care, socialists privileged solidarity within their community and rejected the foundational logic of liberal individualism. In tracing this history, this article considers its importance for contemporary debates about humanitarianism’s imperial power dynamics

Lettres d'Esquiros à Barodet

Esquiros Alphonse. Lettres d'Esquiros à Barodet. In: La Révolution de 1848. Bulletin de la Société d'histoire de la Révolution de 1848, Tome 2, Numéro 12, Janvier-février 1906. pp. 314-317

Nederland en het leven in Nederland

geschetst door Alphonse Esquiros. Naar het franschAus dem Franz. übers

Les fastes populaires ou Histoire des actes héroïques du peuple et de son influence sur les sciences, les arts, l'industrie et l'agriculture. Tome 2 / par Alphonse Esquiros,...

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