Anarchist Individualism and Amorous Comradeship* by Émile Armand

 INDEX

 Translator’s note 
 

Prologue 

A Picture of the Situation 

The Social Ambiance

Racing up the Ladder of Appearances.

The complexity of the human problem. 

Anarchist Individualism 

To live one’s own life

Anarchism.

Origins of Anarchism

Society

Anarchist Individualism

The dominion of the “I”

The individualists and the systematic revolutionaries

The individualist’s conditions of existence

Our kind of Individualist. 

Authority and Domination 

The law of continual progress

The origin and evolution of domination

Concerning “good” and “evil” 

To Live at Will 

It’s worth it to live.

The “I” and the happiness of living.

To live for living’s sake.

Not to suffer

The individualism of happiness

Cunning as a defensive weapon

Passive Resistance

Risks.

Getting old: The complicated life

Faith.

And this is what you call living?

The individualist city.

The danger of mediocrity-rule.

Critical activity

To enjoy physically. 

Sensual life. Amorous Camaraderie. 

Considerations on the idea of freedom 

What is love?

The social environment and sexual relations.

Theory of sexual freedom

Sexual education.

The emancipation of feelings

The Break-up 

Lemon Drops (Aphorisms) 

Greater Evils 

Chastity

Jealousy

Flirting in love.

The bourgeois caricature of free love.

Obscenity, modesty, and sexual emancipation.

The parasites

Prostitution 

A Full Life 

Nudism

Reciprocity

A love with many faces

Variations on voluptuousness

Art and Science

Art for the artist

Reflections on poetic language and its modes of expression. 

Poems

The dream 

Sensibility

Progress or dementia? 

Commentary without pretensions 

Epilogue 

Emile Armand’s influence in Spain.

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 *translated by J, 2004. The texts in this anthology come from the book Anarchist Individualist Initiation, published by The Friends of Armand, Florence, Italy, 1956. To live one’s own life: from the book Realism and Idealism Mixed, by Emile Armand. Published by the International Library, Paris, 1926 (Spanish version). Lemon Drops: Fragments from the book Amorous Camaraderie. A Full Life: in Free love and subversive sexuality — voluntary procreation. Conscious Generation Editorial Library, Valencia, 193? Reflections on poetic language and its modes of expression and Poems: from the book, So sang an “outsider”, 1925. Commentary without pretensions: Article published in the magazine Zenith, #98, February 1959.