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Raymond Aron (1905–1983)

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Raymond Aron was a French political scientist, economist, and philosopher who was several times a visiting professor in the United States. He commented regularly and influentially on social and political topics and current issues in the conservative French newspaper Le Figaro, in books and on visa mer radio, and as a teacher at L'ecole pratique des hautes etudes, in Paris. Because of his consistent opposition to Marxism and his admiration and respect for the United States, Aron was perhaps not so highly regarded as French intellectuals of the Left. But he was always a voice for reason and moderation at a time when his critics were often strident and ineffectual. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Raymond Aron

The Opium of the Intellectuals (1955) 313 exemplar
Memoirs (1983) — Författare — 138 exemplar
An Essay on Freedom (1965) 77 exemplar
Democracy and Totalitarianism (1965) 68 exemplar
The Century of Total War (1954) 67 exemplar
On War (1958) 49 exemplar
German Sociology (1964) 28 exemplar
In Defense of Decadent Europe (1977) 28 exemplar
Marxismo de Marx, O (2002) 23 exemplar
Marxismes imaginaires (1970) 19 exemplar
Gli ultimi anni del secolo (1901) 17 exemplar
Politics and History (1978) 15 exemplar
Liberty and Equality (2013) 15 exemplar
Leçons sur l'histoire (1989) 15 exemplar
Britannica Perspectives (1968) 10 exemplar
Karl Marx (2015) 7 exemplar
La révolution introuvable (1968) 6 exemplar
Mémoires Tome 1 (1900) 6 exemplar
Mémoires Tome 2 (1983) 5 exemplar
France: The New Republic (1960) 4 exemplar
Pensar la guerra, Clausewitz (1993) 3 exemplar
Diálogo (2007) — Författare — 3 exemplar
Lezioni sulla storia (1997) 2 exemplar
Le XXe siècle (1999) 2 exemplar
L'etica della libertà. Memorie di mezzo secolo. — Författare — 2 exemplar
Esej o svobodách (1992) 2 exemplar
Sosyolojik Dusuncenin Evreleri (2015) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Opium intelektualistów (2000) 2 exemplar
Mitos e Homens 2 exemplar
Le grand schisme 1 exemplar
Cagdas Alman Sosyolojisi (2017) 1 exemplar
Aron et De Gaulle (2022) 1 exemplar
La sociologie (1978) 1 exemplar
Political Theory (1979) 1 exemplar
Les sociétés modernes (2006) 1 exemplar
Widz i uczestnik (1984) — Författare — 1 exemplar
Kebebasan dan Martabat Manusia — Författare — 1 exemplar
Der permanente Krieg (1953) 1 exemplar
La societa' industriale (1965) 1 exemplar
Chroniques de guerre (1990) 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Aron, Raymond
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Aron, Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand
Födelsedag
1905-03-14
Avled
1983-10-17
Begravningsplats
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Kön
male
Nationalitet
France (birth)
Land (för karta)
France
Födelseort
Paris, France
Dödsort
Paris, France
Dödsorsak
Crise cardiaque
Bostadsorter
Paris, France
Utbildning
Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ph.D | 1938)
Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Lycée Hoche, Versailles, France
Lycée Condorcet
Yrken
philosopher
sociologist
political scientist
historian
journalist
memoirist
Relationer
Schnapper, Dominique (daughter)
Aron, Jean-Paul (nephew)
Karády, Viktor (assistant)
Castel, Robert (protégé)
Aron, Suzanne (wife)
Organisationer
Collège de France (Professeur, Sociologie, 1970 | Professeur, Sociologie, 1970)
Université de la Sorbonne, Institut d'études politiques, Ecole pratique des Hautes études, Paris (Professeur, Sociologie, 1955 | 1967)
Le Figaro, Journal (Editorialiste, 1947 | 1977)
Combat, Journal (Editorialiste, 1946 | 1947)
Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Chargé de cours, Philosophie, 1946 | 1947)
Ministère de l'information, France 'Directeur du cabinet d'André Malraux, 1944 | 1946) (visa alla 19)
Les Temps Modernes, Revue (Contributeur actif, 1944 | 1945)
La France libre, Revue de résistance à Londres (Collaborateur actif et éditorialiste, 1940 | 1944)
Armée française, WW2 (Mobilisation, 1939 | 1940)
Centre de Documentation sociale de l'École normale, Paris (Secrétaire, 1935)
Lycée du Havre (Professeur, Philosophie, 1933 | 1934)
Institut français de Berlin (Pensionnaire | 1931 | 1933)
Université de Cologne (Lecteur, 1930 | 1931)
Fort de Saint-Cyr, Service militaire (1928 | 1930)
L'Express (Magazine | Editorialiste, Président du comité directeur, 1977 | 1983)
Société française de sociologie (Président, 1962 | 1964)
Institut français de sociologie (Membre, Président, 1961 | 1962)
Centre européen de sociologie historique (Directeur, 1969 | 1983)
Centre de sociologie européenne (Directeur, 1960 | 1968)
Priser och utmärkelser
Goethepreis der Stadt Frankfurt (1979)
Officier de la Légion d'honneur
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Commandeur de l'ordre des Palmes académiques
Croix Pour le Mérite (version civile)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1960) (visa alla 13)
International member, American Philosophical Society (1966)
Prix des Ambassadeurs (1962)
Prix Montaigne (1968)
Prix des Critiques (1973)
Goethe Prize (1979)
Erasmus Prize (1983)
Croix de guerre 1939-1945
Kort biografi
Raymond Aron was born to a secular Jewish family in Paris, France. His father was a lawyer. After lycée, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure, from which he received a doctorate in the philosophy of history in 1930. He took first place in the civil service agrégation exam in philosophy in 1928. He took a lecturer position at the University of Cologne and focused on major German philosophers, sociologists, and political and military thinkers. Witnessing the rise to power of the Nazi regime and book burnings in Berlin in 1933 Aron presciently concluded that war was inevitable and returned to France. He married Suzanne Gauchon the same year. In 1935, he published his first book, La Sociologie allemande contemporaine (Contemporary German Sociology). He was a professor of social philosophy at the University of Toulouse when World War II broke out in 1939, and he volunteered for the French Air Force. After the fall of France to Nazi Germany, he went to London to join the Free French forces of General Charles de Gaulle in exile and edited their newspaper, La France Libre (Free France), from 1940 to 1944. On his return to Paris at the end of the war, Aron became a sociology professor at the École Nationale d'Administration. From 1955 to 1968, he was professor of sociology at the Sorbonne. From 1970, he was a professor at the Collège de France. Throughout his career. Aron also worked as a journalist, and in 1947 he became an influential columnist for Le Figaro, a position he held for 30 years. In 1977, he left Le Figaro and began to write a political column for the weekly magazine L'Express. Aron had a decisive influence on the political culture in France and in Europe. Through his writings, he gave force to anti-totalitarian liberalism and rationalist humanism, and was often contrasted with his great contemporary (and former classmate) Jean-Paul Sartre, an existentialist and Communist. Among Aron's most influential works were L'Opium des intellectuels (The Opium of the Intellectuals, 1955), La Tragédie algérienne (The Algerian Tragedy, 1957), and République impériale: Les États-Unis dans le monde, 1945–1972 (The Imperial Republic: The United States and the World, 1945–1973). A constant theme running through his writings was the subject of violence and war, as in Paix et guerre entre les nations (Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations, 1962) and his books on the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. Aron also wrote an influential history of sociology entitled Les Étapes de la pensée sociologique (Main Currents in Sociological Thought, 1967). He published his Mémoires shortly before his death in 1983.

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luvucenanzo06 | Feb 19, 2024 |
Due volumi per raccogliere i saggi scritti per il Simposio "Il ruolo di Marx nello sviluppo del pensiero scientifico contemporaneo" con gli auspici dell'UNESCO a Parigi l'8-10 maggio 1968 a cura del Consiglio internazionale per la filosofia e le scienze umane e dal Consiglio internazionale di scienze sociali per il 150° anniversario della nascita di Karl Marx. Il primo è su filosofia e metodologa e il secondo su sociologia ed economia. Il primo volume conserva la sua freschezza e si possono leggere tutte le faglie che attraversano il marxismo negli anni che portano al '68, in specie per il rapporto con lo strutturalismo.… (mer)
 
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anamorfo | Dec 16, 2023 |
I'm going to be straight forward: don't read this book if you don't have a particular interest in the history of ideas or intellectual history of the mid-20th century. Because this book is largely marked by the period in which it was written, around 1954-55, during the height of the Cold War. Raymond Aron (1905-1983) was still a rising French intellectual, did not yet have a permanent position at a university or a research institution, but had already made himself noticed in the polemic surrounding Marxism and more specifically Stalinism, especially because he undisguisedly opposed what he called the idolatry of extreme left-wing ideas. In this book he systematically explains his views on this. In other words, you must have some knowledge of Marxism itself, and especially of the French intellectual landscape of the 1950s. And – with my apologies – still 1 element that makes the reading difficult: the book is not as homogeneous as I expected, sometimes it looks more like a collection of previously published articles. (By the way: I read this in French, so I couldn’t comment on the translation)

Enough warnings. What I especially want to emphasize is how lucid Aron's analyzes were: how fearlessly he attacked all the sacred cows (in this case of the left), in an argument that razor sharply exposed the contradictions of Marxism and especially Stalinism and de facto proved how those views in reality were wrong. But there's more. Aron frames his judgment in a broader vision of the naive progressive optimism of the left, of exaggerated philosophies of history in Western culture, of the idolization of the phenomenon of 'revolution' in France, and of the own moral psychology of the intellectual elite. With regard to the latter, in my opinion he occasionally went a bit out of line, for example by scornfully pointing out that intellectuals are not insensitive to the 'pecuniary aspects' of the public forum.
I could write endless more about this book, but others have done it much better. I conclude by underlining that - although this book is very dated, especially in terms of context - it is nevertheless testimony to a lucid and brilliant mind, whose right has been confirmed by history.
In my History account on Goodreads I go into a little more detail about Aron's philosophy of history: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6046153633.
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bookomaniac | 3 andra recensioner | Dec 13, 2023 |

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