Ulteriori informazioni
Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Aron that form a political history of our time
Sommario
Part I: The Committed Observer. Introduction, Section One: France in the Tempest, A Young Intellectual of the 1930s, The Dark Years, 1940-1945, The Disillusionments of Liberation, Section Two: Democracy and Totalitarianism, The Great Schism, 1947-1956, Decolonization, Peace and War Among Nations, Section Three: Liberty and Reason, The Left, Steadfast and Changing, The Clash of Empires, The Committed Observer, Conclusion, Identification of Persons Named in Part I, Notes to Part I, Part II: Encounters with Raymond Aron: 1970-1976, The Disillusions of Modernity, On Loathing Tyranny, Can Democracy Survive?, Part III: An Afterword, Democratic States and Totalitarian States: An Address to the French Philosophical Society, June 17,1939
Info autore
Raymond Aron was the foremost political and social theorist in post-World War II France. He authored more than forty books, including Politics and History and In Defense of Decadent Europe, also available from Transaction. Daniel J. Mahoney is associate professor of politics at Assumption College. He is the author of the The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron and De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy. Brian C. Anderson is research associate in social and political studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the literary editor of Crisis. His essays and reviews have appeared in First Things, Interpretation, The Review of Politics, The Salisbury Review, and many other journals.
Riassunto
Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Aron that form a political history of our time
