René Worms

René Worms (born December 8, 1869 in Rennes , † February 12, 1926 in Paris ) was a French sociologist and philosopher .

Life

René Worms was the son of Émile Worms . After brilliant degrees at the Lycée Charlemagne and the École normal supérieure and training as a lawyer, he worked at the Court of Appeal in Paris from 1891 and became an auditor at the Conseil d'État (Council of State) of France in 1894 . He worked in a number of state commissions, especially those with statistical tasks.

From 1895 to 1897 Worms taught political economy at the law faculty of the University of Paris , then until 1901 at the University of Caen - here he also dealt with agricultural issues. During this time he also taught at the École normal supérieure and at the Institut Commercial in Paris, and later also at other Paris universities, e.g. B. at the Russian School of Social Sciences .

In 1893 he founded the Revue Internationale de Sociologie , which he published from then on; He also founded the Bibliothèque Sociologique Internationale and organized the Institut International de Sociologie and the Société de Sociologie of Paris. His most important opponent in France was the influential Émile Durkheim (cf. his opposition to Arnold van Gennep or Gabriel Tarde ), so that many opponents of Durkheim gathered around the Revue Internationale de Sociologie . Only under Worms' successor Guillaume Léonce Duprat (1872–1956) did these contrasts weaken.

Worms' organizational achievements, which created an international infrastructure for sociology, are considered to be his most important contribution to this new science, which was only emerging at the end of the 19th century.

Sociology is also the area in which Worms primarily worked scientifically. At times he represented ideas about the organism , but turned away from it again.

Worms was a staunch supporter of Judaism. He defended the law initiated by Adolphe Crémieux in 1870 , which gave Algerian Jews full French citizenship, but not Muslims, and led to disputes.

On February 18, 1905, René Worms became a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Works

• René Worms: De la Volonté Unilatérale Considérée Comme Source d'Obligations . Paris 1891.
• René Worms: Eléments de Philosophie Scientifique et de Philosophie Morale . Paris 1891.
• René Worms: La Morale de Spinoza . Paris 1892.
• René Worms: De Natura et Methodo Sociologiæ . Paris 1896.
• René Worms: Organizme et Société . V. Giard et E. Brière, Paris 1896.
• René Worms: La Science et l'Art en Economie Politique . Paris 1896.
• René Worms: Philosophy of Sciences Sociales . 3 volumes, 1903–1907. Paris.
• René Worms: Précis de Philosophy . 3. Edition. Hachette, Paris 1905.
• René Worms: Les principes biologiques de l'evolution sociale . V. Giard and E. Brière, Paris 1910.
• René Worms: La sexualité dans les naissances françaises . V. Giard and E. Brière, Paris 1912.
• René Worms: La sociologie: sa nature, son contenu, ses attaches . V. Giard and E. Brière, Paris 1921.

literature

• Achille Ouy: René Worms (1869-1926) . In: Revue internationale de sociologie . tape 33 , 1925, pp. 577-580 .
• Gaston Richard : Annales de l'Institut International de Sociologie . tape 15 . Paris 1927.
• Daniel Essertier: La Sociologie (=  Philosophes et Savants français du XXe siècle . Volume V ). Félix Alcan, Paris 1930.
• Wilhelm Bernsdorf, Horst Knospe (Hrsg.): International sociologist lexicon . 2nd Edition. 2 volumes, 1980–1984. Enke, Stuttgart, p. 505 ( books.google.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Worms, René . In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): The Jewish encyclopedia . tape 12 : Talmudic doubt . KTAV, New York 1964, OCLC 309963082 , p. 567 ( cloudfront.net - first edition: 1906).