Jean Baechler

Jean Baechler, born 28 March 1937 in Thionville (Moselle) and died 13 August 2022 in Draveil, was a French academic and sociologist.

Full professor and later emeritus of Historical sociology at the Sorbonne, he was a member of the ''Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques'', elected on 6 December 1999 to the Sociology section. to the seat vacated by the transfer of Alain Besançon.

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. Provided by Wikipedia