Gaston Bouthoul
Gaston Bouthoul (* 1896 in Monastir , Tunisia , † 1980 in Paris ) was a French sociologist. He is considered a pioneer in the sociology of war or polemology.
Bouthoul studied law and philosophy in Paris and Bordeaux and received a doctorate in both law and philosophy . He taught as a professor (economics) at the law faculty of the University of Paris .
His main interest was war as a social phenomenon. In order to clearly differentiate his subject from military research, he named it after the Greek polemos (war, dispute) polemology . He was the founder and president of the Institut Français de Polémologie .
Fonts in German translation
- State ideas and political programs in world history , translation by Margrit Henning, preface by Carlo Schmid , Stuttgart: Cotta, 1965.
- Child murder for reasons of state. The war as a settlement in terms of population policy , translation by Karin von Zabiensky, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1972, ISBN 3-421-01618-6
literature
- Heinz Maus and Hans Leo Krämer: Bouthoul, Gaston , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2, Enke, Stuttgart ²1984, p. 99.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gaston Bouthoul in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gunnar Heinsohn : "Of dawns that have not yet shone - human measure for readiness for war" (Lecture; appreciation of Bouthoul from 2:23 pm. Video from the Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe, June 2017)
- Jerónimo Molina Cano : La polemología o la guerra. El pensamiento polemológico de Gaston Bouthoul . Dissertation. Faculty of Philosophy. Coimbra University .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouthoul, Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monastir , Tunisia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1980 |
| Place of death | Paris |