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Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ aʁɔ̃]; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.
Raymond Aron was a French sociologist, historian, and political commentator known for his skepticism of ideological orthodoxies. The son of a Jewish jurist, Aron obtained his doctorate in 1930 from the École Normale Supérieure with a thesis on the philosophy of history. He was a professor of social.
Raymond Aron was a French political scientist, sociologist, and journalist who made major contributions to the study of totalitarianism, liberalism, Communism, and international relations.
The life of Raymond Aron, whose career should have followed the path of a conventional scholar and philosopher, was telescoped by the very history that he had chosen as his subject of study, marked by ruptures and personal trials.
Feb 22, 2022 · Raymond Aron's life and political reflection was coextensive with the totalitarian epoch that emerged with the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and came to an end with the implosion of the Soviet Union in the years immediately following his death in 1983.
Jul 19, 2013 · Raymond Aron (1905–1983) assumed many guises over a long and fruitful career: journalist, polemicist, philosopher of history, counselor to political leaders and officials, theorist of nuclear deterrence and international relations. He was also France’s most notable sociologist.
Sep 19, 2023 · The name of Raymond Aron is often strangely missing from the canon of the twentieth-century’s great philosophers. He is sometimes thought of as a b.
Raymond Aron is the greatest figure in French liberalism of the twentieth century. In the tradition of Montesquieu, Constant, Tocqueville, and Elie Halévy, he is part of the French school of political sociology, which he defined in his Les Etapes de la...
Raymond Aron was the outstanding Western intellectual of the. postwar period. Unique among French political and philosophical lu- minaries, Aron never suspended his critical judgment, nor permitted himself the psychological luxury of full, passionate participation in the mass movements of our time. For his pains, he was excluded from the.
The twin terms “ideology” and “totalitarianism” were two of the major concerns of Aron’s political philosophy. In his thinking, ideology predated totalitarianism; however, he held that the terms were reflective of Germany’s National Socialism and the Soviet Union’s Communism.
