Émile Lasbax

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Émile Lasbax
Born1888
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Notable ideas
Rhythm

Émile Lasbax was a French philosopher and sociologist of the early 20th century.

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Biography

Lasbax was born in the commune of Rieumes (Haute-Garonne) of southwestern France in 1888. He completed his doctoral thesis, Le Problème du Mal [The Problem of Evil], at the University of Bordeaux under the supervision of Gaston Richard in 1918. [1] He taught in the French lycée at Tarbes and Roanne until he was granted a professorship in philosophy and sociology in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1925. It is here that he would remain until his retirement in 1942. Lasbax was best known for being the successor to Gaston Richard as the director of the Revue Internationale de Sociologie [International Review of Sociology] in 1934 but was also a corresponding member of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie [German Society for Sociology] and also the Academy of Political Sciences at Columbia University. [2]

Thought

Lasbax's original work can largely be characterized as a synthesis of metaphysics and sociology. He saw the spiritual and material life of collective society as thoroughly intertwined and asserted that history was developmental such that its final state would yield a truly "human society." [2]

Influences

Early on, Lasbax was heavily influenced by the work of Théodore Ruyssen who was, himself, an interpreter of Henri Bergson. Nevertheless, he drew from a wide variety of thinkers to develop his own original work. Such thinkers include Baruch Spinoza, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Auguste Comte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Emile Durkheim. [3]

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References

  1. Terry Clark, Prophets and Patrons: The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974), 224.
  2. 1 2 Wilhelm Bernsdorf and Horst Knospe, ed., Internationales Soziologenlexikon [Lexicon of International Sociology] (Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag, POB, 1980), 232.
  3. E. Goossens, Review of La Dialectique et le Rythme de l'Univers (Cahiers de Synthèse Dialectique, I), by Émile Lasbax, Revue Néo-Scolastique de Philosophie 28 (1926): 490.