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Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science. This edition focuses on Aron's lifelong attempt to bridge the gap between knowledge and action and to understand the dialectical relationship between history and politics. It is an indispensable introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our century.This volume also contains an introduction by Aron, which presents an autobiographical account of his confrontation with many of the most important ideas of this century. Miriam Bernheim Conant provides perceptive commentary as well as a chronology of Aron's career and works.
List of contents
I: History and Society; 1: The Philosophy of History; 2: Thucydides and the Historical Narrative; 3: Three Forms of Historical Intelligibility; 4: On the Historical Condition of the Sociologist 1; II: History and Politics; 5: Machiavelli and Marx 1; 6: Macht Power, Puissance: Democratic Prose or Demoniac Poetry?; 7: Sociology and the Philosophy of Human Rights; 8: The Liberal Definition of Freedom; 9: What Is a Theory of International Relations?; 10: The Evolution of Modern Strategic Thought (1945-1968); 11: The Dawn of Universal History 1; III: Conclusion; 12: History and Politics; 13: The Social Responsibility of the Philosopher; Chronology of Raymond Aron’s Academic Career
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Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science
