Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol

Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (A.D. Xenopol) (1847-1920) is a Historien and Rumanian economist , author of several works on the Théorie and the Philosophie of the history.

He studied with Vienna and Berlin where it is interested in the Droit and with the Philosophie. He leaves his career of lawyer to devote itself to the history and sign at the University of Iaşi, his town of origin. He will be named member of the Rumanian Academy in 1895, he will teach a few years at the Collège de France. One owes him one of the most important syntheses of the Histoire of the Romania, his Institution S and his Tradition S.

Near to the German current that Raymond Aron names " philosophy criticizes histoire" (or historism), Xenopol contributed to make known in France the main characters of this design of the Histoire: Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Simmel, max Weber, Heinrich Rickert and Wilhelm Windelband. Indeed, several of its works were translated into French (he also wrote in French) with the turning of the Siècle and had a certain influence in the French historians of the time like Henri Berr.

Xenopol was also a well-known Antisémite and a collaborator close relation of the theorist and politician of Extreme-right-hand side Alexandru. C. Cuza. One regards it as one of the inspirers of the movement Nationaliste and anti-semite Garde of trusting " Guard of iron " according to the last report/ratio of the International commission on the Holocaust in Romania (available to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

In the genesis of the historism, the theory of the history of Xenopol remains a fundamental work which in particular the theologist and German sociologist will commentront Ernst Troeltsch in his magnum opus Der Historismus und the Seine problem (1922) and Raymond Aron in his Introdution with the philosophy of the history (1938). Epistemological work of Xenopol on the history (its reflections on the event, the Logical of the history, the recourse to the Concept of " Value " or axiology in history and the establishment of the Fait S) know today a certain renewed interest in research relating on the Philosophie of the history and to the Causalité in historical sciences.

French works

a historical enigma: Roumanians with the Middle Ages , Paris, E. Leroux, 1883.
History of the Roumanians of Dacie Trajane , Paris, E. Leroux, 1896.
basic principles of the history , Paris, E. Leroux, 1899. Republished in 1908 pennies the title: the theory of the history. Basic principles of the history .
the Jew Question in Romania , Paris, the Latin Rebirth, 1902.
Political of races , Rome, Forzani, 1903.
Causality in the succession , Paris, L. Stag, 1904.
Concept of ″ value ″ in history , Versailles, of Stag, Extract of the Re-examined ″ historical synthesis ″, 1906.
the Unconscious one in the history , communication read with the Academy of Science morals and policies, in its meeting of July 7th, 1906, Paris, A. Picard and wire, 1907.
the Role of is war in the history of civilization , Paris, V. Giard and E. Brière, 1907.
the history a science? , Paris, V. Giard and E. Brière, 1908.
Roumanians, history, material state and intellectual , Paris, C. Delagrave, 1909.
France seen of the outside. Paris seen of Romania , Paris, " Review for the français" , 1909.
Rumanian Intellectuality , Paris, H. Champion, 1912.
Causality in the historical series , Abbeville, Extract of the Re-examined ″ historical synthesis ″, 1914.

German

Zur Logik der Geschichte (" Logic of the histoire"), Munich, R. Oldenbourg, S.D., about 1906.
Der Wertbegriff in der Geschichte (" The concept of value in histoire"), Leipzig, Teubner, S.D., about 1906.

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