EUROSOC—European Socialism Network
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 94, S. 202-206
ISSN: 1471-6445
The history of socialism has, without a doubt, been met with renewed interest in France in recent years. Several publishers have republished nineteenth-century texts (by Proudhon, Saint-Simon, Marx, Jaurès, etc.) and, particularly in the fields of history, philosophy, and political science there have been a series of scholarly research projects following various approaches (including the history of the diversity of Europe's socialist movements). All this is testament to a renewal of scholarly approaches, moving away from the more ideological approaches that had previously been predominant. The fact that this renewed interest comes twenty years after the disappearance of "actually-existing socialism" shows how far approaches have changed from the studies that were being published thirty years ago.