2021-09-15

The Companion to Raymond Aron

 Title  The Companion to Raymond Aron

Edition
1st ed. 2015.
Identifier(s)


Creation Date
2015
Description

This edited collection brings to light the rare virtues and uncommon merits of Raymond Aron, the main figure of French twentieth-century liberalism. 
The Companion to Raymond Aron is an essential supplement to Aron's autobiography Mémoires (1984) and main works, exploring the substance of his political, sociological, and philosophical thought.

English

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Contents

Raymond Aron, philosopher and freedom fighter : life and works / Nicolas Baverez
-- Aron on war and strategy : a framework for conceptualizing international relations today / Jean-Vincent Holeindre
-- In the "era of tyrannies" : the international order from nazism to the cold war / Matthias Oppermann
-- Aron and the cold war : "brother enemie" / Carlos Gaspar
-- Forward to the past : history and theory in Aron's peace and war / Bryan-Paul Frost
-- "Citizen Clausewitz" : Aron's Clausewitz in defense of political freedom / Joel Mouric
-- Fin de siecle : Aron and the end of the bipolar system / Carlos Gaspar -- Raymond Aron and the notion of history : taking part in history / Perrine Simon-Nahum
-- The question of political regime and the problems of democracy : Aron and the Tocqueville alternative / Giulio De Ligio
-- The totalitarian negation of man : Raymond Aron on ideology and totalitarianism / Daniel J. Mahoney
-- A Machiavellian conception of democracy? : democracy and conflict / Serge Audier
-- Revisiting Aron's the class struggle : rereading fifty years after / Serge Paugam
-- The origins of the "end of ideology" : Raymond Aron and industrial civilization / Iain Stewart
-- Raymond Aron and Immanuel Kant : politics between morality and history / Pierre Hassner
-- Statesmanship and ethics : Aron, Max Weber, and politics as a vocation / Scott Nelson and José Colen
-- Aron and Marxism : the Aronian interpretation of Marx / Sylvie Mesure 
-- "Moderate Machiavellianism" : Aron, Machiavelli, and the modern Machiavellians / Diogo Pires Aurelio
-- Montesquieu and Aron on democracy's virtues and vices : the question of political legitimacy / Miguel Morgado
-- Raymond Aron and Alexis de Tocqueville : political moderation, liberty, and the role of the intellectual / Aurelian Craiutu
-- Raymond Aron and "history in the making" / Christian Bachelier.



Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Format
1 online resource (321 p.)
Language
English

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