Jean Bourdeau (28 June 1848 – 8 September 1928) was a French writer, known for his books on aspects of socialism. He was also a translator of Schopenhauer, and an early adopter in France of some of the thought of Nietzsche. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, from

Johannes Janssen Johannes Janssen (10 April 1829 – 24 December 1891) was a Catholic priest and German historian born in Xanten. After graduating from the ''Rektoratsschule'' in Xanten (today's ''Stiftsgymnasium''), he was educated at the universities of Münster, ...

to Maxim Gorky and the rising personality cult of Lenin. He contributed in particular to the ''Journal des Débats'', on contemporary philosophy He was a friend and correspondent of Georges Sorel; Sorel's side of their correspondence has been published.

Works

*''Le socialisme allemand et le nihilisme russe'' (1892) *''L'anarchisme révolutionnaire'' (1894) in La Revue de Paris, vol. I *''La Rochefoucauld'' (1895) *''L'évolution du socialisme'' (1901) *''Socialistes et sociologies'' (1905) *''Poètes et humoristes de l'Allemagne'' (1906) *''Pragmatisme et modernisme'' (1909) *''La philosophie affective. Nouveaux courants et nouveaux problèmes dans la philosophie contemporaine'' (1912) Descartes, Schopenhauer, William James, Bergson, Ribot, A. Fouillée, Tolstoy et Leopardi *''Les maîtres de la pensée contemporaine'' (1913) Stendhal, Taine, Renan, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Ruskin, and Victor Hugo *''Tolstoï, Lénine et la Révolution russe'' (1921) *''La dernière évolution du Socialisme au Communisme'' (1927) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bourdeau, Jean People from Limoges 1848 births 1928 deaths German–French translators French political writers 19th-century French philosophers Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques 19th-century French translators