Joseph Wresinski’s concept of “Fourth World” compared with L.P. Dufourny’s Fourth Order (1789) and the work of the historian Bronisław Geremek

Posted on 10 June 2017

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Michèle Grenot is a historian and author of Le souci des plus pauvres: Dufourny, la Révolution française et la démocratie (Rennes University Press and Fourth World Editions, 2014).

In the context of work by Louis-Pierre Dufourny and Bronisław Geremek, Joseph Wresinski’s approach challenges us to think about the fundamental concepts and meaning of democracy, about political freedom, about the place of very poor people in jurisprudence, citizenship, and civil discourse, and about the origin of political rights.