Dominique Parodi (May 2, 1870 – November 12, 1955) was a French philosopher and educational administrator.
Dominique Parodi was born in
Genoa
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. He was the son of Margarita (née Vitale) and
Dominique-Alexandre Parodi; 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
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, 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
André Lalande (26 May 1913 – 19 October 1995) was a French Army officer and general in the Chasseurs Alpins and French Foreign Legion. He fought during the World War II at the heart of the Free French Forces, then in Indochina and Algeria.
M ...
, '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