Émile Armand

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Émile Armand

Émile Armand (pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin) (born March 26, 1872 in Paris , † February 19, 1962 in Rouen ) was an individual anarchist and author.

Life

Armand was the son of an active participant in the Paris Commune and grew up in a strictly anti-clerical milieu. He did not have to go to school and was tutored by his older brother. From a young age he was familiar with the most important works of classical literature and was able to read in several modern European languages. When he was in London at the age of sixteen, he read the New Testament and experienced a crisis of consciousness. After his return he joined the Paris Salvation Army and worked there from 1889 to 1897. Due to his extensive practical experience in dealing with people and his intact critical spirit, his Christian humanism gradually transformed into a Christian anarchism inspired by Tolstoy . Under the influence of Les Temps Nouveaux by Jean Grave and Benjamin Tucker , Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson , he first developed into a communist anarchist , but soon after, after reading Nietzsche and Stirner , became an individual anarchist . In his publication “Our demands as individualistic anarchists” (1945) he went into more detail.

In 1911 he published Le petit manuel anarchiste individualiste (German: Das kleine Handbuch des Individualanarchismus). Around 1912 he began writing against violence as a political tool. In many of his writings he urged the anarchists not to hope for a better future, but to live in the present and become active.

From 1922 he founded the magazine L'En-Dehors , which appeared until 1939. Armand was a co-founder of the Anti-Military League .

Armand published numerous books, brochures, and magazines for more than half a century. His best-known titles are L'Initiation individualiste anarchiste of 1923 and La révolution sexual et la camaraderie amoureuse , published in 1934. He worked on the Encyclopédie anarchiste of Sébastien Faure with.

Armand died in Rouen on February 19, 1962.

Fonts

French
  • Qu'est ce qu'un anarchiste? (1908)
  • L'initiation Individualiste Anarchiste (1923)
  • Ainsi chantait un en dehors (1st part 1925; 2nd part 1933)
  • Fleurs de solitude et points de repère (1926)
  • Les loups dans la ville (1928)
  • Libertinage et prostitution (1931)
  • La Révolution sexual et la camaraderie amoureuse (1934)
  • En marge du vice et de la vertu (1937)
  • Préface à nouvelle édition de "L'Unique" de Max Stirner (1948)
German
  • E. Armand: The problem of sexual relations and the individualistic point of view. Translated from the French. and Ital .: Falco Meyer. Freiburg / Br .: Verlag der Mackay-Gesellschaft 1978, ISBN 3-921388-27-9 (a chapter from Armand's main work L'initiation Individualiste Anarchiste , which appeared in 1923 and in 1953 in a greatly expanded version in Italian translation)
  • E. Armand: Anarchistic individualism as life and activity / Our demands as individualistic an-archists / [About my activities] . In: French anarchists. Freiburg / Br .: Verlag der Mackay-Gesellschaft 1977, ISBN 3-921388-13-9 (pp. 14–20; 21–24; 24–26)

Magazines

  • L'ère nouvelle (1901-1911)
  • Hors du troupeau (1911)
  • Pendant la Mélée / Par-delà la Mêlée (1915–1918)
  • L'En-Dehors (1922-1939)
  • L'Unique (1945–1956)

literature

  • S [idney] E. Parker: Introduction to: Emile Armand, Selected Writings of an Outsider; engl. orig. in: The Storm 11/12, 1981, pp. 6-9; Translated by Paul Jordens, in: Espero. Forum for Libertarian Social and Economic Order, Vol. 5, No. 14 (June 1998), pp. 3–6.

Web links

Commons : Émile Armand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography and writings . Retrieved January 24, 2012
  2. ^ Emile Armand - Our demands as individualistic anarchists (1945) . Retrieved January 24, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Armand, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juin, Ernest-Lucien; Armand, Ernest; Armand, E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist, writer and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1962
Place of death Rouen