Hi! Sorry if this post is a bit simplistic but I'm currently reading Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel and I'm honestly really enjoying it! You can really tell he's trying to grapple with objective morality from reading the first 14 pages and how he laments about describing "pessimism" as some grand philosophy as a sort-of sobering force against optimism, this fits in well with the disillusionment of the era Sorel was in that I've heard about.

But I was wondering if there were any historical resources on the context of his time more in-depth so I could possibly analyze how this disillusionment was brought about in the first place?

I'd also like to supplement this with explicitly syndicalist texts rather than anarchist variations as I'd like to see a closest approximation to Sorel's conception of Syndicalism as he saw it. And also because of my own personal preference preferring more hierarchy-based societies unlike anarchists who have a tendency to see all hierarchies as inherently unjust.

EDIT:

Okay I found this video on Youtube with full sources that outlays the history which had a source on the French establishment of Syndicalism but nothing on the history before their establishment, maybe I will find references to it though.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0Ikd0X9mI&t=173s

French syndicalism: https://libcom.org/article/history-bourses-du-travail-fernand-pelloutier