Alfred de Tarde
Jean Bertrand Alfred de Tarde (20 April 1880 – 3 April 1925) was a French politician, writer, economist and journalist.
Biography
Alfred de Tarde was born in Sarlat-la-Canéda, the son of noted sociologist Gabriel Tarde. He is best known today for the publication of two surveys with Henri Massis under the pseudonym of Agathon, L'Esprit de la nouvelle Sorbonne (1911) and Les Jeunes Gens d'aujourd'hui (1913). This last work has the originality to resort to the method of a survey in order to try to establish the causes of the decline of classical culture in France. Tarde and Massis questioned the young pre-war generation where, according to them, a revival of patriotism, religious sentiment, and a certain taste for action were observed.
These investigations claimed the patronage of Charles Maurras and the Action Française and were part of the climate of tensions following the Dreyfus Affair, which saw a rise in nationalism and dissatisfaction with the measures of secularization of the State. Tarde was one of the promoters of the Ligue des Compagnons de l'Intelligence.
Alfred de Tarde died in La Roque-Gageac, where he was mayor, at the age of 44.
Works
- Hors la vie (1906)
- L'Idée du juste prix. Essai de psychologie économique (1907)
- Anatole France, prince des conteurs (1912)
- Barreau de Paris. Eloge de Edmond Rousse (1912)
- L'Esprit de la nouvelle Sorbonne (1911; with Henri Massis)
- Les Jeunes Gens d'aujourd'hui (1913; with Henri Massis; reprinted in 2003 by Jean-Jacques Becker)
- L'Europe court-elle à sa ruine? (1916)
- Stendhal (1920)
- Le Maroc, école d'énergie (1923)
- L'Esprit périgourdin et Eugène Le Roy (1923)
- Allegra ou le clos des loisirs (1925)
- La Politique d'aujourd'hui. Enquête parmi les groupements et les partis (with Robert de Jouvenel)
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