The Companion to Raymond Aron (Recovering Political Philosophy)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-2 Life and Works: Raymond Aron, Philosopher and Freedom Fighter....Pages 3-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-17 Raymond Aron on War and Strategy: A Framework for Conceptualizing International Relations Today....Pages 19-30 In the “Era of Tyrannies”: The International Order from Nazism to the Cold War....Pages 31-44 Aron and the Cold War: “Brother Enemies”....Pages 45-57 Forward to the Past: History and Theory in Raymond Aron’s Peace and War....Pages 59-75 “Citizen Clausewitz”: Aron’s Clausewitz in Defense of Political Freedom....Pages 77-90 Fin De Siècle: Aron and the End of the Bipolar System....Pages 91-99 Front Matter....Pages 101-103 Raymond Aron and the Notion of History: Taking Part in History....Pages 105-117 The Question of Political Regime and the Problems of Democracy: Aron and the Alternative of Tocqueville....Pages 119-135 The Totalitarian Negation of Man: Raymond Aron on Ideology and Totalitarianism....Pages 137-148 A Machiavellian Conception of Democracy? Democracy and Conflict....Pages 149-162 Revisiting Aron’s The Class Struggle: Rereading Fifty Years after....Pages 163-176 The Origins of the “End of Ideology?” Raymond Aron and Industrial Civilization....Pages 177-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-195 Raymond Aron and Immanuel Kant: Politics between Morality and History....Pages 197-203 Statesmanship and Ethics: Aron, Max Weber, and Politics as a Vocation....Pages 205-216 Aron and Marxism: the Aronian Interpretation of Marx....Pages 217-230 “Moderate Machiavellianism”: Aron, Machiavelli, and the Modern Machiavellians....Pages 231-243 Montesquieu and Aron on Democracy’s Virtues and Corruption: the Question of Political Legitimacy....Pages 245-260 Raymond Aron and Alexis De Tocqueville: Political Moderation, Liberty, and the Role of the Intellectuals....Pages 261-274 Front Matter....Pages 191-195 Epilogue: Raymond Aron and History in the Making....Pages 275-292 Back Matter....Pages 293-304 This edited collection brings to light the rare virtues of Raymond Aron, the main figure of French twentieth-century liberalism, and is an essential supplement to Aron's main works, exploring the substance of his political, sociological, and philosophical thought. The cynosure of his deepest ambition was producing 'praxeology' or a theory of action. His multifaceted oeuvre embodies one of the most successful efforts in twentieth century to conceive of political philosophy as a practical philosophy.-- Provided by publisher Annotation 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 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 Memoires (1984) and main works, exploring the substance of his political, sociological, and philosophical thought.