Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy (born July 20, 1754 in Paris , † March 10, 1836 there ) was a French philosopher and politician of the late Enlightenment . He is considered the founder of ideology as the science of ideas that should overcome obscurantism .
Life and work
He was the son of Claude-Louis-Charles Destutt, the Marquis de Tracy, a professional soldier who died in 1766 of the effects of his injuries sustained at the Battle of Minden . The Destutt family (also called "de Stutt") descends from a noble family from Scotland.
At the beginning of the French Revolution he was a colonel and deputy of the Estates General . He leaned toward the liberal party, was a member of the Society of Thirty and voted, among other things, for the abolition of noble privileges. As an enlightener , he belonged to Madame Helvétius' salon .
In 1792 he left France with Lafayette , but returned in 1793 and was arrested. It was only after Robespierre's fall that he was released.
During the reign of Napoleon he was a senator and after the restitution of the Bourbons was appointed peer of France .
From 1808 until his death he held the fortieth chair in the Académie française .
Works
- Éléments d'idéologie , Paris 1801–15. Reprint in 4 volumes by Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1977, ISBN 978-3-7728-0104-4
- Commentaire on l'esprit des lois de Montesquieu . - Liège 1817. Paris: Delaunay, 1819. - Electronic document
- Traité d'économie politique , Paris, Bouguet et Levi, 1823 1st edition 1815 (Georgetown 1817: Translated by Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826))
literature
- Ulrich Lorenz: The project of ideology. Studies for the conception of a “First Philosophy” at Destutt de Tracy . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7728-1630-4 , ( Quaestiones 6).
- Brigitte Schlieben-Lange : Destutt de Tracy, in: Lexicon Grammaticorum , ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996, pp. 235-236.
- Jean Stéfanini: Un grammairien sensualiste: Destutt de Tracy, in: Logos semantikos. Studia linguistica in honorem Eugenio Coseriu. Vol. 1: History of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics , ed. by Jürgen Trabant, Berlin / New York / Madrid 1981, pp. 229–236.
Web links
- Literature by and about Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Remarks
- ↑ He coined the term in 1792, it was only under Napoleon that it acquired its current negative meaning.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude Destutt comte de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher and late Enlightenment politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1836 |
| Place of death | Paris |