PHILOSOPHER

Antoine Destutt de Tracy

1754 - 1836

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Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy (French: [dɛstyt də tʁasi]; 20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836) was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Destutt de Tracy has received more than 185,930 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Antoine Destutt de Tracy is the 435th most popular philosopher (up from 489th in 2019), the 1,290th most popular biography from France (up from 1,512th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Philosopher.

Antoine Destutt de Tracy is most famous for his work on the theory of knowledge and the idea of the three powers of the mind. The three powers are the imagination, which is the power to form mental images; the understanding, which is the power to compare and contrast those images; and the memory, which is the power to retain those images.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 435 out of 1,267. Before him are Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, H. L. A. Hart, Henry Suso, Abul A'la Maududi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Ronald Dworkin. After him are Giles of Rome, Ernest Gellner, Francisco Ferrer, Emmanuel Mounier, Thomas Cajetan, and Petrus Ramus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 12. Before him are Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Georg Forster, Frederick I of Württemberg, and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. After him are Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Salawat Yulayev, Louis de Bonald, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, and William Bligh. Among people deceased in 1836, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 20. Before him are James Mill, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Anton Reicha, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Anthony of Saxony, and Maria Cristina of Savoy. After him are Aaron Burr, William Henry, James Bowie, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Carle Vernet, and Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 1,290 out of 6,770. Before him are Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895), Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753), Max Linder (1883), Dalmatius (350), and Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523). After him are Gérard Debreu (1921), Bernard Hinault (1954), Clément Marot (1495), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), Ernest Gellner (1925), and Emmanuel Mounier (1905).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Antoine Destutt de Tracy ranks 58. Before him are Alain de Lille (1117), Étienne Cabet (1788), Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782), Alain de Benoist (1943), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), and Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460). After him are Ernest Gellner (1925), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Petrus Ramus (1515), Maine de Biran (1766), Michel Serres (1930), and Victor Cousin (1792).

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