Raymond J Aron

Politics and History: Selected Essays

History and the Dialectic of Violence: An Analysis of Sartre's Critique De La Raison Dialectique

History, Truth, Liberty: Selected Writings of Raymond Aron

De Gaulle, Israel, and the Jews

The Elusive Revolution: Anatomy of a Student Revolt

Democracy and Totalitarianism

The Imperial Republic: The United States and the World, 1945-1973

Clausewitz Philosopher of War

Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection

Raymond Aron has won the respect and admiration of leading figures from all spheres of twentieht-centruy life and from all points of teh poilitical spectrum. An independent thinker who was often called the lone voice of reason in the heat of political conflicts, Aron became well known for his bold, ...

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, deTocqueville, and the Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848

More than a work of reconstruction, Aron's study is an engagement with the question of modernity that explores three traditions: the French liberal school of political sociology, the Comtean tradition, and the Marxists.

Thinking Politically: A Liberal in the Age of Ideology

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 t...

Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political

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...

Politics and History

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 a...

Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations

Peace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations. Aron’s starting point is the state of nature that exists between nations, a condition that differs essentially from the civil state that holds within political communities. Ever keeping this brute fa...

The Dawn Of Universal History: Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth Century

In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an active participant. Combining objectivity with incisive questioning, Aron's reading of movements and people reminds us of what was really at stake. Whethe...

The Opium of the Intellectuals

Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth...