Alfred Espinas

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Alfred Victor Espinas (born May 23, 1844 in Saint-Florentin (Yonne) ; died February 24, 1922 there ) was a French sociologist and philosopher .

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Alfred Espinas was born on May 23, 1844. He attended high school in Sens , where he was a fellow student of Stéphane Mallarmé . Espinas obtained the degrees Agrégé de philosophie (1871) and Docteur ès lettres (1877). Espinas was a professor of philosophy and history of the social economy. In 1905 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .

Espinas was influenced by the work of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer . Spencer's Principles of Sociology ( Principles of Sociology he translated) together with Théodule Ribot into French.

Espinas' work on animal societies ( Des sociétés animales ) influenced Scipio Sighele and Friedrich Nietzsche .

Matthias Groß points out that French authors such as Alfred Espinas or René Worms did not deny the significant existence of conflicts in nature, but instead referred to the possibilities of harmony and consensus.

Publications (selection)

  • Des Sociétés animales, étude de psychologie comparée, Éd. Germer Baillière, Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine (1878) Digitized
    • (German translation) The animal societies. A comparative psychological investigation. After the second edition, which has been expanded many times, edited in German by W. Schloesser with the assistance of the author. Braunschweig, Vieweg and Son, 1879 digitized
  • Descartes et la morale. Etudes sur l'histoire de la philosophie de l'action. Paris, 1925
  • Xénophon: l'économie naturelle et l'impérialisme héllénistique. Parsi, 1905
  • La Philosophy expérimentale en Italie, origines, état actuel , Éd. Germer Baillière, Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine (1880) Digitized
  • Histoire des doctrines économiques (1891) digitized
  • Les origines de la technologie: étude sociologique (1897) digitized
  • La Philosophie sociale du XVIIIe et la Révolution, Félix Alcan, Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine (1898) digitized

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les ami-es de Mallarmé - litteratur.fr
  2. ↑ Information on Alfred Espinas in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  3. ↑ ESPINAS ALFRED near Lille 3 ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Jean-François Condett: Notices biographiques des enseignants titulaires de la faculté des Lettres de Douai puis de Lille sous la Troisième République. Les lettrés de la République, Villeneuve d'Ascq, IRHiS-Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (“Histoire et littérature de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest”, numéro 37, année 2006 hleno.revues.org .) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / irhis.recherche.univ-lille3.fr
  4. ^ Jean-Marc Bernardini: Le darwinisme social en France (1859-1918): Fascination et rejet d'une idéologie, CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition, 2013 (first 1997) partial online view
  5. ^ Principes de psychologie. Paris, Alcan 1875.
  6. ↑ See his La foule criminelle ( online )
  7. ↑ cf. z. B. Werner Stegmaier: Nietzsche's liberation of philosophy: Contextual interpretation of the fifth book of the gay science. 2012, p. 287 Online partial view .
  8. ^ Matthias Groß: Nature. 2014, p. 38 Partial online view

literature

  • Jean J. Ostrowski: Alfred Espinas, précurseur de la praxéologie: Ses antécédents et ses successeurs. Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, Paris, 1973 ( book review )

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Espinas, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Espinas, Alfred Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sociologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Florentin (Yonne)
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1922
Place of death Saint-Florentin (Yonne)