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Raymond Aron’s status as a patron saint of French liberalism stems not so much from his success as a Cold War pamphleteer as from the intellectual poverty of his epigones. Here was a man ever ready to uncork sound, no-nonsense editorials in favor of American foreign policy but who could also lecture on continental philosophers wholly obscure ...
Sep 19, 2023 · Nevertheless, it would be a mistake, a grave mistake, to ignore Aron’s contribution to political philosophy. His greatest works—The Opium of the Intellectuals, Peace and War, Democracy and Totalitarianism—were more than “interventions” in the debates of his era but attempts to articulate a substantive philosophy of liberalism.
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IAIN STEWART University College London University Printing House, Cambridge , United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, th Floor, New York, , USA Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, , Australia –, rd Floor, Plot , Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – , India Anson Road, #–/, Singapore ...
Acknowledgements A Note on Translations and References page ix xiii Introduction Intellectual Politics and the Crisis of Democracy Philosophy and Politics in the Late Third Republic Aron’s Early Political Development Critiquing the Intellectual Politics of the s Conclusion ...
Raymond Aron and the French Liberal Tradition Deconstructing the ‘French School of Political Sociology’ The Effacement of Célestin Bouglé The Sociological Reception of Montesquieu from Comte to the Durkheimians Aron’s Interpretation of Montesquieu Aron’s Interpretation of Tocqueville Conclusion Raymond Aron and the Liberal Moment in Late Twenti...
This book would not have been written without the support and encour-agement of the many colleagues, mentors, friends, and family members that it is my pleasure to thank here. First among these is Stuart Jones, my former PhD dissertation supervisor at the University of Manchester. Although this monograph differs substantially from the dissertation ...
moment in late twentieth-century French thought. Collaborating with Steve Sawyer on this project and the book that resulted from it, In Search of the Liberal Moment, has been extremely valuable, and if I have anything interesting to say about late twentieth-century French liberalism beyond Raymond Aron then Steve deserves part of the credit for thi...
Varouxakis for their support and advice. I have been equally fortunate in joining the Department of History at University College London in and would particularly like to thank Margot Finn for her help with my fellowship application to the Institut d’études avancées de Paris. Earlier financial assistance from the Arts and Humanities Research C...
supportive, the best in-laws that anyone could hope for. Above all I would like to thank my wife Emily Campbell for everything she has given me since we met fifteen years ago, including most recently the birth of our daughter Claudia. This book has taken a long time to complete, but it could not have been finished at all without Emily’s patience, g...
All translations from French are my own unless stated otherwise. Although footnotes generally refer to the original French publications, in the main body of the text I have used the titles of published translations where these exist. I have made an exception to this rule in instances where the title of the published translation significantly change...
This book explains how, why, and with what consequences he belatedly defined and aligned himself with a French liberal tradition. It also situates Aron within the larger histories of Cold War liberalism and decolonization, re-evaluating his contribution to debates over totalitarianism, the end of ideology, and the Algerian War.
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Mar 1, 2021 · This is Aron’s challenge to the liberal definition of freedom: Can liberalism, classical liberalism, defend “the spine” of truth at its heart without succumbing to the utopian temptation to create a world without politics (a dream paradoxically shared by Marx and the Marxist tradition if much more blindly and fanatically).
This, however, seems to be just as much a problem with Aron’s Cold War liberalism, as with the liberalism he criticizes. It is hard to hold together Aron’s value pluralism, which was forged in his rejection of Marxist/nineteenth century liberal progressive philosophies of history, from his late life lament that there is no longer “a ...
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Mar 22, 2024 · Instead, Aron’s lecture has two objectives. The first is to ponder the relationship between what Aron views as the different sets of liberties that liberalism tries to promote. Second, he seeks to identify what liberalism needed if it was going to withstand the tendencies to totalitarianism which marked 20th-century Europe.
