Raymond Aron And Liberal Thought In The Twentieth Century

Author : Iain Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484441
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century written by Iain Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical account of Raymond Aron's role in the reconfiguration of liberal thought in the short twentieth century.

Author : Joshua L. Cherniss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122093X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism in Dark Times written by Joshua L. Cherniss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism—a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights—are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin—each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here. Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition—one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos.

Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412839907
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Politically written by Raymond Aron and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Aron that form a political history of our time. Ranging over an entire lifetime, from his youthful experience with the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin to the denouement of the cold war, Aron meditates on the threats to liberty and reason in the bloody twentieth century. In addition to the interviews published in the original edition, Thinking Politically incorporates three interviews never before published in book form. This supplemental material clarifies Aron's role as a voice of prudential reason in an unreasonable age and allows unparalleled access to the principal influences on Aron's thought. The volume concludes with "Democratic States and Totalitarian States," an address by Aron to the French Philosophical Society as well as the accompanying debate with Jacques Maritain, Victor Basch, and other intellectuals.

Author : Adair-Toteff Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474447112
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Aron's Philosophy of Political Responsibility written by Adair-Toteff Christopher Adair-Toteff and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Aron made major investigations into the dialectic between war and peace, and also developed a sophisticated theory of international relations. Despite this, his body of work has been overlooked compared to that of his more famous contemporaries. This book shines a light on both the man and his work on ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations and political economy. The book also discusses Aron's political legacy and argues that a number of his critiques and theories can help us address many of the problems and conflicts of the 21st century.

Author : José Colen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137522437
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Companion to Raymond Aron written by José Colen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412845157
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and history written by Raymond Aron and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100068024X
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Politically written by Raymond Aron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Arn that form a political history of our time. Ranging over an entire lifetime, from his youthful experience with the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin to the dénouement of the cold war. Aron mediates on the threats to liberty and reason in the bloody twentieth century. Originally published as The Committed Observer, this volume provides one of the fullest accounts available of the dramatic events of the "short century," which began with the pistol shot in Saravejo in 1914 and ended with the collapse of the ideological monsters whose deadly nature Aron had ruthlessly exposed for a half-century. In addition to the interviews published in the original edition. Thinking Politically incorporates three interviews never before published in book form. This supplemental material clarifies Aron's role as a voice of prudential reason in an unreasonable age and allows unparalled access to the principal influences on Aron's thought. The volume concludes with 'Democratic States and Totalitarian States," an address by Aron to the French Philosophical Society as well as the accompanying debate with Jacques Maritain, Victor Basch, and other intellectuals. Thinking Politically serves as an ideal gateway into Aron's reflections, and offers a superb single-volume introduction to the major events and conflicts of the twentieth century. It will be a welcome addition to the libraries of political theorists, historians, sociologists, philosophers, and citizens wishing to understand the political and intellectual currents of the age.

Author : Brian C. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585080909
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Aron written by Brian C. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and penetrating analysis introduces students to the life and thought of one of the giants of twentieth- century French intellectual life. Portraying Raymond Aron as a great defender of reason, moderation, and political sobriety in an era dominated by ideological fervor and philosophical fashion, Brian Anderson demonstrates the centrality of political reason to Aron's philosophy of history, his critique of ideological thinking, his meditations on the perennial problems of peace and war, and the nature of conservative liberalism. This accessible study of Aron's thought and the thought of his contemporaries will enhance any syllabus for classes on modern and contemporary political thought.

Author : Daniel J. Mahoney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847677160
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron written by Daniel J. Mahoney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical introduction to Raymond Aron's conception of political science, based on a careful study of one of his central statements, The Dawn of Universal History, with collateral reference to most of his other major works, and with a clear account of his unfolding thought. Mahoney discusses Aron's relationship to such political and social thinkers as Aristotle, Tocqueville, Marx, Strauss and Von Hayek. He shows how Aron represented in a lively and vigorous way a tradition of political prudence increasingly under theoretical and practical assault. Mahoney argues that Aron's notion of political science is superior to today's reigning social science in scope, rigour and availability to practical political leaders and citizens.

Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Raymond Aron and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aron reflects with simplicity and depth on industrial society, communism, the future of democracy, peace and war, the nuclear age, and also Charles de Gaulle, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux, Henry Kissinger and others.