ABSTRACT

2011. 347 f. Tese (Doutorado) – Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2011.
The object of the thesis is the meaning of the economic questions - of economy, economic realm of reality, and the Political Economy, economic knowledge - in the thought of Proudhon between 1838-1847. Situated in the field of Intellectual History and considering the texts of the author in the period as constituent parts of a corpus, the thesis intended to demonstrate the important role that the author attributed to the economy both in the preservation and in the transformation of the social order, and how the Political Economy was used, criticized and transformed by him for the purpose of analysis and transformation of this same order.
Keywords: Political Economy. Socialism. Anarchism.