Georges Davy

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Georges Davy

Georges Davy (born December 31, 1883 in Bernay ( Eure ); died July 27, 1976 in Coutances ( Manche )) was a French sociologist . He was a student and pupil of Émile Durkheim (1858-1917).

life and work

Georges Davy was professor of sociology at the Sorbonne , member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , president of the jury of the Agrégation de philosophie and dean of the Faculté des lettres de Paris . Together with many other French and German intellectuals, he took part in the first university course in Davos in 1928 .

Together with Marcel Mauss and Paul Huvelin (1873–1924), Davy conducted anthropological studies of the origins of the idea of ​​the contract . Probably his best-known work is La foi jurée: étude sociologique duproblemème du contrat: la formation du lien contractuel (Travaux de l ' Année sociologique , 1922), which he wrote in memory of Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) and Lévy-Bruhl (1857 –1939) ( Hommage d'une vive et respectueuse reconnaissance ).

Publications

  • (Ed.) Émile Durkheim: choix de textes avec étude du système sociologique . Les Grands Philosophes. Paris 1911. Digitized
  • Le droit, l'idéalisme et l'expérience , 1922 digitized
  • La foi jurée: étude sociologique duproblemème du contrat: la formation du lien contractuel , 1922 digitized
  • (with Alexandre Moret ) Des clans aux empires; l'organization sociale chez les primitifs et dans l'Orient ancien. ( L'Évolution de l'humanité . Synthèse collective. Sect. 1, 6). La Renaissance du Livre, Paris 1923)
  • Éléments de sociologie , 1929.
  • Sociologues d'hier et d'aujourd'hui , Librairie Félix Alcan 1931
  • (Ed.) Leçons de sociologie by Émile Durkheim. 1950.
  • Thomas Hobbes et JJ Rousseau , 1953.
  • L'homme; le fait social et le fait politique , 1973 ( Review )

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Alan D. Writing: Georges Davy . In: Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers . John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4051-4394-3 , p. 117 (Retrieved August 29, 2018).
  2. ^ To the author of Essai sur le don .
  3. ↑ cf. Obituary & Frédéric Audren: Paul Huvelin (1873-1924): juriste et durkheimien

literature

  • Roger Cotterrell: "Durkheim School", in: David S. Clark: Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives. 2007, p. 442 f. ( Online partial view )
  • Roger Cotterrell: Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999 (Chapter 8 on Davy, Mauss and Huvelin)

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personal data
SURNAME Davy, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davy, Georges Ambroise Charles Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sociologist and university lecturer (Sorbonne)
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernay
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1976
Place of death Coutances