Augustin Hamon

Augustin Frédéric Hamon (1862–1945) was a French socialist-anarchist writer and editor.

Augustin Frédéric Hamon

Hamon founded the anarchist magazine L'Humanité nouvelle in 1897, and edited it until 1903.[1]

Hamon met George Bernard Shaw for the first time at a Fabian Congress in London in 1894.[2] From 1904 onwards he and his wife Henriette (née Rynenbroeck) translated Shaw's work into French.[3]

Hamon was a proponent of using antisemitism to appeal to a mass audience, arguing in an 1898 interview that "With the petty bourgeois especially, anti-Judaism is the road to Socialism. . .the stage through which the petty bourgeois passes before becoming a Socialist".[4]

His papers are held at the International Institute of Social History.[1][5]

Works
  • Les hommes et les théories du l'anarchie, 1893
  • Psychologie de l'anarchiste-socialiste, 1895
  • La psychologie du militaire professionnel, 1894
  • Patrie et Internationalisme, 1896
  • Un Anarchisme, fraction du socialisme, 1896
  • Une enquête sur la guerre et le militarisme, 1899. Reprinted 1972.
  • The Universal Illusion of Free Will and Criminal Responsibility. 1899.
  • The twentieth century Molière: Bernard Shaw, 1911
  • The technique of Bernard Shaw's plays, 1912
  • Lessons of the world-war, 1917

References
  1. Augustin Frédéric Adolphe Hamon Papers at IISH
  2. Miron Grindea, Art, drama, architecture and music: an anthology of Miron Grindea's ADAM editorials, 2006, p. 11.
  3. Bernard F. Dukore, ed., Selected Correspondence of George Bernard Shaw. Vol. 3. Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal. University of Toronto Press, 1996, p. 4.
  4. Weber, Eugen. "Jews, Antisemitism, and the Origins of the Holocaust." Réflexions Historiques 5.1 (1978), p.7
  5. Augustin Hamon Papers at IISH



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