“The Regeneration of Society”: Thomas Ernest Hulme and the Early British Reception of Georges Sorel

The article examines T. E. Hulme's reading of Georges Sorel as a politically transversal thinker moral renewal. It argues that, by distancing from syndicalism and him absolutes, this interpretation constituted an act resignification. This is shown contrasting with the dominant patterns British reception Sorel. What emerges striking, self-aware, originality positions. originality, we argue, was made possible European scope intellectual horizon, which gave resources to read differently. Finally, ask why Hulme in way. We suggest that working through contradiction between his relativistic philosophical education increasing need for political commitment. Sorel's ethics commitment grounded myth were way move Bergsonian openness metaphysics capable conceptualizing absolutes.