Dominique Parodi (May 2, 1870 – November 12, 1955) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Dominique Parodi was born in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of t ...
. He was the son of Margarita (née Vitale) and
Dominique-Alexandre Parodi
Dominique-Alexandre Parodi (Domenico Alessandro Parodi in Italian publications) (b. 15 October 1840 - d.1901), known as Alexandre (Alessandro), was a naturalised French writer, poet and dramatist of Graeco-Italian extraction.
Biography
He was b ...
; his father was a poet and dramatist of Graeco-Italian background. A member of the group around
Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim ( or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, al ...
, he was a contributor to their journal, ''
L'Année Sociologique''.
Between 1919 and 1934 he was General Inspector of Public Instruction. He succeeded
Xavier Léon Xavier Léon (21 May 1868, Boulogne-Billancourt - 21 October 1935, Paris) was a French-Jewish philosopher and historian of philosophy.
In 1893 Léon – together with Élie Halévy and others – helped found the French philosophical journal ''Revu ...
as editor of the ''
Revue de métaphysique et de morale
The ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' is a French philosophy journal co-founded in 1893 by Léon Brunschvicg, Xavier Léon and Élie Halévy. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly. It ...
'', editing it from 1935 to 1955.
Works
* ''Traditionalisme et démocratie'', 1909
* ''Le problème moral et la pensée contemporaine'', 1910
* ''La philosophie contemporaine en France; essai de classification des doctrines'', 1919
* ''La Siris'' by
George Berkeley
George Berkeley (; 12 March 168514 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley ( Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immate ...
, 1920 (translation of the book with Georges Beaulavon)
* 'De l'explication dans les sciences par E. Meyerson', ''
Revue de métaphysique et de morale
The ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' is a French philosophy journal co-founded in 1893 by Léon Brunschvicg, Xavier Léon and Élie Halévy. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly. It ...
'' 31 (1924), pp. 585–97
* ''Les bases psychologiques de la vie morale'', 1928
* ''Du positivisme à l'idéalisme: études critiques'', 1930
* ''En quête d'une philosophie; essais de philosophie première'', 1935
* ''Le problème politique et la démocratie'', 1945
References
Further reading
* 'Chronique', ''Annales de l'Université de Paris'' Vol. 5 No. 3 (1930), pp. 317–21
*
André Lalande, 'Dominique Parodi', ''
Revue de métaphysique et de morale
The ''Revue de métaphysique et de morale'' is a French philosophy journal co-founded in 1893 by Léon Brunschvicg, Xavier Léon and Élie Halévy. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly. It ...
'' 60 (1955), pp. 341–51
External links
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1870 births
1955 deaths
Italian emigrants to France
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French educators
French sociologists
20th-century French philosophers
George Berkeley scholars
Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
French male writers