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'''Jean Baechler'''; 28 March 1937 in [[Thionville]] ([[Moselle (department)|Moselle]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Universalis |first=Encyclopædia |title=JEAN BAECHLER (1937-2022) |url=https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/jean-baechler/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Encyclopædia Universalis |language=fr-FR}}</ref> – 13 August 2022 in [[Draveil]], was a French academic and [[Sociology|sociologist]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= 2 July 2019|title=Jean Baechler |url=https://academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr/publications/publications-de-lacademie/jean-baechler/ |website=academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr |language=fr}}.</ref>
'''Jean Baechler''', born 28 March 1937 in [[Thionville]] ([[Moselle (department)|Moselle]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Universalis |first=Encyclopædia |title=JEAN BAECHLER (1937-2022) |url=https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/jean-baechler/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Encyclopædia Universalis |language=fr-FR}}</ref> and died 13 August 2022 in [[Draveil]], was a French academic and [[Sociology|sociologist]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= 2 July 2019|title=Jean Baechler |url=https://academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr/publications/publications-de-lacademie/jean-baechler/ |website=academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr |language=fr}}.</ref> Full professor and later [[emeritus]] of historical sociology at the Sorbonne,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mingardi |first=Alberto |date=2022-08-26 |title=Opinion {{!}} Capitalism and the Freedom to Walk Away |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/capitalism-and-the-freedom-to-walk-away-jean-baechler-france-italy-competition-trade-pluralism-experiments-innovation-11661542276 |access-date=2023-11-23 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> he was a member of the ''[[Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques|Académie des sciences morales et politiques]]'', elected on 6 December 1999 to the Sociology section.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Jean Baechler |url=https://www.canalacademies.com/academiciens/jean-baechler |website=canalacademies.com |language=fr}}.</ref> to the seat vacated by the transfer of [[Alain Besançon]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date= |title=Jean Baechler |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Jean-Baechler/81198 |website=babelio.com |language=fr}}.</ref>


His major contributions to the field of anthropological and historical sociological knowledge pertain to a philosophical overhaul of the human sciences (or general anthropology), a general theory of ‘power’ and political regimes, the long-term history of democratic regimes in relation to various types of social organization (bands, tribes, cities, nations), the history of social morphologies, a non-relativistic virtue ethics, and a sociological explanation of the conditions underpinning the emergence of major religious and secular metaphysics, particularly during the [[Axial Age|axial age.]]
Full professor and later [[emeritus]] of historical sociology at the Sorbonne,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mingardi |first=Alberto |date=2022-08-26 |title=Opinion {{!}} Capitalism and the Freedom to Walk Away |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/capitalism-and-the-freedom-to-walk-away-jean-baechler-france-italy-competition-trade-pluralism-experiments-innovation-11661542276 |access-date=2023-11-23 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> he was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, elected on December 6, 1999 in the Morale et Sociologie section to the seat vacated by the transfer of [[Alain Besançon]]Alain Besançon.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date= |title=Jean Baechler |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Jean-Baechler/81198 |website=babelio.com |language=fr}}.</ref>

President of the [[Académie Française]] and [[Institut de France]] for 2011.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date= |title=Jean Baechler |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Jean-Baechler/81198 |website=babelio.com |language=fr}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Les orateurs / Jean Baechler |url=http://seance-cinq-academies-2011.institut-de-france.fr/baechler.php |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=seance-cinq-academies-2011.institut-de-france.fr}}</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Graduating in philosophy and history in [[University of Strasbourg]] and Doctor in Sociology from [[Sorbonne University]], Jean Baechler has devoted much of his life to teaching and research. He began his career as a history-geography teacher at the Lycée Montesquieu in [[Le Mans]] (1962-1966), where he defended a thesis (Les suicides) under the supervision of Raymond Aron. From 1966 to 1969, he was a lecturer in sociology at the Sorbonne, then a lecturer in sociology at the EHESS (1968-1986). From 1975 to 2006, he was seminar leader for the DEA in sociology at Paris IV, Paris V and Paris X. In 1988, he became Professor of Historical Sociology at Paris IV-Sorbonne. At the same time, he was attached to (1966), then in charge of (1969), then director of research at the CNRS (1977-1988), in the sociology section.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Jean Baechler |url=https://www.canalacademies.com/academiciens/jean-baechler |website=canalacademies.com |language=fr}}.</ref>
Graduating in philosophy and history in [[University of Strasbourg]] and Doctor in Sociology from [[Sorbonne University]], Jean Baechler has devoted much of his life to teaching and research. He began his career as a history-geography teacher at the Lycée Montesquieu in [[Le Mans]] (1962-1966), before meeting [[Raymond Aron]] and lecturing in sociology at the Sorbonne from 1966 to 1969, then from 1969 to 1986, at the ''École Pratique des Hautes Études'', which became the ''École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales'' ([[School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|EHESS]]) in 1975. From 1975 to 2006, he was seminar leader for the DEA in sociology at Paris IV, Paris V and Paris X. He also became a research associate at the [[French National Centre for Scientific Research|CNRS]] in 1966, a research fellow in 1969 and then director of research in the sociology section from 1977 to 1988. In 1988, he left the [[French National Centre for Scientific Research|CNRS]] to take up the chair of [[Historical sociology|Historical Sociology]] at the Sorbonne (Paris-IV). He taught there until 2006. He was elected to the ''[[Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques|Académie des sciences morales et politiques]]'' in 1999. President of the [[Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques|''Académie des sciences morales et politiques'']] and [[Institut de France|''Institut de France'']] for 2011.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Les orateurs / Jean Baechler |url=http://seance-cinq-academies-2011.institut-de-france.fr/baechler.php |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=seance-cinq-academies-2011.institut-de-france.fr}}</ref>

He was also a member of the Centre européen de sociologie historique directed by [[Raymond Aron]] (1969-1984) and, from 1984, belonged to the Groupe d'études des méthodes de l'analyse sociologique (GEMAS) founded by Raymond Boudon in Sorbonne's Sociology Department.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= 2 July 2019|title=Jean Baechler |url=https://academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr/publications/publications-de-lacademie/jean-baechler/ |website=academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr |language=fr}}.</ref>


Jean Baechler was a member of the [[Centre européen de sociologie historique]] directed by [[Raymond Aron]] (1969-1984). In 1984, he became a member of the ''Groupe d’études des méthodes de l’analyse sociologique'' (GEMASS)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Accueil |url=https://www.gemass.fr/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=GEMASS |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BAECHLER Jean |url=https://www.gemass.fr/member/baechlerenjean-baechler-frjean/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=GEMASS |language=fr-FR}}</ref> founded by [[Raymond Boudon]]. He was Honorary Chairman of the Association philotechnique.<ref>{{Citation |title=Association philotechnique |date=2023-07-03 |url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association_philotechnique&oldid=205672357 |work=Wikipédia |access-date=2023-12-01 |language=fr}}</ref>
Since June 2006, Jean Baechler has ceased all teaching activities. He now devotes his time to editing and publishing his work, much of which was developed during his seminars. He is Honorary Chairman of the Philotechnic Association.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= 2 July 2019|title=Jean Baechler |url=https://academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr/publications/publications-de-lacademie/jean-baechler/ |website=academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr |language=fr}}.</ref>


==Work==
==Bibliography==
* [[1968]] : ''Politique de [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]]'' (Textes collection and analysis), Armand Colin, col. "U"
* [[1968]] : ''Politique de [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]]'' (Textes collection and analysis), Armand Colin, col. "U"
* [[1970]] : ''Les Phénomènes révolutionnaires'', PUF, col. "SUP".
* [[1970]] : ''Les Phénomènes révolutionnaires'', PUF, col. "SUP".
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* 2023 : ''Sociologie historique de l'Absolu''
* 2023 : ''Sociologie historique de l'Absolu''


From 2013 to 2016, Jean Baechler led a series of seventeen colloquia and seminars at the Académie des Sciences Morales & Politiques, culminating in the publication of the following proceedings.
From 2013 to 2016, Jean Baechler led a series of seventeen colloquia and seminars at the Académie des sciences morales & politiques, culminating in the publication of the following proceedings.


== Distinctions ==
== Distinctions ==

Revision as of 12:15, 1 December 2023

Jean Baechler, born 28 March 1937 in Thionville (Moselle)[1] and died 13 August 2022 in Draveil, was a French academic and sociologist.[2] Full professor and later emeritus of historical sociology at the Sorbonne,[3] he was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, elected on 6 December 1999 to the Sociology section.[4] to the seat vacated by the transfer of Alain Besançon.[5]

His major contributions to the field of anthropological and historical sociological knowledge pertain to a philosophical overhaul of the human sciences (or general anthropology), a general theory of ‘power’ and political regimes, the long-term history of democratic regimes in relation to various types of social organization (bands, tribes, cities, nations), the history of social morphologies, a non-relativistic virtue ethics, and a sociological explanation of the conditions underpinning the emergence of major religious and secular metaphysics, particularly during the axial age.

Biography

Graduating in philosophy and history in University of Strasbourg and Doctor in Sociology from Sorbonne University, Jean Baechler has devoted much of his life to teaching and research. He began his career as a history-geography teacher at the Lycée Montesquieu in Le Mans (1962-1966), before meeting Raymond Aron and lecturing in sociology at the Sorbonne from 1966 to 1969, then from 1969 to 1986, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, which became the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 1975. From 1975 to 2006, he was seminar leader for the DEA in sociology at Paris IV, Paris V and Paris X. He also became a research associate at the CNRS in 1966, a research fellow in 1969 and then director of research in the sociology section from 1977 to 1988. In 1988, he left the CNRS to take up the chair of Historical Sociology at the Sorbonne (Paris-IV). He taught there until 2006. He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1999. President of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and Institut de France for 2011.[5][6]

Jean Baechler was a member of the Centre européen de sociologie historique directed by Raymond Aron (1969-1984). In 1984, he became a member of the Groupe d’études des méthodes de l’analyse sociologique (GEMASS)[7][8] founded by Raymond Boudon. He was Honorary Chairman of the Association philotechnique.[9]

Bibliography

  • 1968 : Politique de Trotsky (Textes collection and analysis), Armand Colin, col. "U"
  • 1970 : Les Phénomènes révolutionnaires, PUF, col. "SUP".
    • 1975 : translation: Revolution, Harper & Row.
  • 1971 : Les Origines du capitalisme, Gallimard.
    • 1975 : The Origins of Capitalism, Blackwell.
  • 1975 : Les Suicides (from his PhD thesis, directed by Raymond Aron),[10] Calmann Lévy. Préface de R. Aron. Reissu Hermann, 2009.
    • 1979 : Suicides, Basic Books.
  • 1976 : Qu'est-ce que l'idéologie ? Ed. de poche, Idées, Gallimard No. 345.
  • 1978 : Le Pouvoir pur, Calmann Lévy.
  • 1985 : Démocraties, col. liberté de l'esprit, Calmann Lévy.
  • 1988 : La Solution indienne. Essai sur les origines du régime des castes, PUF.
  • 1988 : Europe and the rise of Capitalism (dir. avec Michael Mann (sociologue) et John A. Hall ).
  • 1993 : La Grande Parenthèse (1914-1991). Essai sur un accident de l'histoire, Calmann Lévy.
  • 1994 : Précis de la démocratie, Calmann Lévy- Unesco.
    • 1995 : Democracy: An Analytical Survey, UNESCO Publishing.
  • 1995 : Le Capitalisme, 2 vol. Col. Folio Histoire.
  • 1996 : Contrepoints et commentaires (recueil d'articles parus dans ces revues), Calmann Lévy.
  • 2000 : Nature et histoire, PUF.
  • 2002 : Esquisse d'une histoire universelle, Fayard[11]
  • 2003 : Aspects de la mondialisation, PUF[12]
  • 2005 : Les Morphologies sociales, col. Sociologies, PUF.
  • 2006 : Les Fins Dernières, Hermann
  • 2008 : Agir, faire, connaître, Hermann
  • 2009 : Les Matrices culturelles. Au foyer des cultures et des civilisations, Hermann
  • 2009 : La Nature humaine, Hermann
  • 2010 : Le Devenir, Hermann
  • 2011 : La Perfection, Hermann
  • 2012 : La Disqualification des experts, Hermann
  • 2013 : L'Être. Les fondements métaphysiques de la hiérologie, Hermann
  • 2014 : Qu'est-ce que l'humain ?, Hermann, coll. "Hermann philosophie", 2014
  • 2014 : Précis d'éthique, Hermann
  • 2014 : Précis de philosophie politique, Hermann
  • 2015 : Recréer le système monétaire international, Hermann (avec Jean-Claude Trichet et Michel Pébereau).
  • 2017 : En Quête de l'Absolu, Vérités et erreurs religieuses, Hermann
  • 2019 : Que valent nos connaissances, éd. Hermann
  • 2019 : De l'art à la culture
  • 2019 : Guerre, Histoire et Société : Éléments de polémologie
  • 2019 : Modèles d'humanité : Humanisme et mondialisation
  • 2020 : Ecologie ou écologisme ? : Raison et pertinence des politiques environnementales[13]
  • 2021 : La Spiritualité
  • 2021 : L'Irrationnel aujourd'hui (dir. avec Gérald Bronner)
  • 2022 : L'intime
  • 2023 : Sociologie historique de l'Absolu

From 2013 to 2016, Jean Baechler led a series of seventeen colloquia and seminars at the Académie des sciences morales & politiques, culminating in the publication of the following proceedings.

Distinctions

  • Officier de la Légion d'honneur[2]'[14]
  • Chevalier de l'ordre des Palmes académiques.[2]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "JEAN BAECHLER (1937-2022)". Encyclopædia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  2. ^ a b c "Jean Baechler". academiesciencesmoralesetpolitiques.fr (in French). 2 July 2019..
  3. ^ Mingardi, Alberto (2022-08-26). "Opinion | Capitalism and the Freedom to Walk Away". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  4. ^ "Jean Baechler". canalacademies.com (in French)..
  5. ^ a b "Jean Baechler". babelio.com (in French)..
  6. ^ "Les orateurs / Jean Baechler". seance-cinq-academies-2011.institut-de-france.fr. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  7. ^ "Accueil". GEMASS (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  8. ^ "BAECHLER Jean". GEMASS (in French). Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  9. ^ "Association philotechnique", Wikipédia (in French), 2023-07-03, retrieved 2023-12-01
  10. ^ Jean-Claude Schmitt (1976). "Jean Baechler, Les suicides préface de Raymond Aron". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (Review) (in French). 31 (1): 140-143..
  11. ^ "Jean Baechler, "Esquisse d'une histoire universelle"". fayard.fr (in French)..
  12. ^ "Aspects de la mondialisation politique". puf.com (in French)..
  13. ^ "Ecologie ou écologisme ? Raison et pertinence des politiques environnementales". editions-hermann.fr (in French). 16 September 2020..
  14. ^ Décret du 30 décembre 2011 portant promotion et nomination. Retrieved 2023-09-25.

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