ISBN:
9781839980046
,
1839980044
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 204 pages)
Series Statement:
Anthem companions to sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stark, Joachim The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron
DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Aron, Raymond
;
1900-1999
;
Sociology History 20th century
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Retracing Aron's Routes to Sociology -- A Republican Family -- The Great Depression and Marx's Kapital -- Aron Discovers Philosophy -- Aron: A Liberal to His Core -- Studies in Germany and "la condition historique du citoyen" -- Aron and La France libre -- The Temptation of Politics and a Return to Sociology -- Collège de France: Clausewitz and In Defense of Decadent Europe -- References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter One The Subject, Pluralism and Équité: Raymond Aron and Sociology -- Plurality of Modes of Consideration and Historical Condition of Man -- A Plurality of Interpretations and Worldviews -- The Plurality of Modes of Consideration in Action: Les Étapes de la pensée sociologique -- Aron's Definitions of Sociology -- The Problem of Sociologism -- Aron's Approaches to a Critique of Structuralism and Poststructuralism -- Aron and Bourdieu: A Promising Partnership Meets an Unhappy End -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Two Aron, Weber and Nationalism -- Aron and Weber -- Aron on Weber
Description / Table of Contents:
Response -- Aron beyond Weber -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three Equivocal and Inexhaustible: Aron, Marx and Marxism -- References -- Chapter Four The Opium of the Intellectuals -- Prologue -- Political Messianism -- Marxism as a Pascalian Wager -- Vulgar Marxism, Cognitive Dissonance and Bad Faith -- Opium of the Intellectuals (but Not Only) -- Opium: Past Its Sell-by Date? -- Epilogue -- References -- Chapter Five A New Era in the Human Adventure: Industrial Society and Economic Growth -- References -- Chapter Six Raymond Aron: La lutte de classes
Description / Table of Contents:
Industrial Society and the Autonomy of Politics -- Marx versus Pareto: Social Classes and Ruling Minorities -- Social Stratification and Class Struggle -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Seven Political Philosophy Meets Political Sociology: Raymond Aron on Democracy and Totalitarianism -- Chapter Eight The Contradictions of Prometheus: Wisdom and Action after the Disillusionment of Progress -- Philosophy and the Criteria of History -- The Sociology of the Disillusionment of Progress -- The Social Order of Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
The Philosophy of the Essay, the Macrosociological Method and the Right Tone -- The Unresolvable Dialectic -- Modern Facts and Modern Projects -- The Insufficient Lessons of Sociohistorical Tendencies -- After the Fall of Idols: Wisdom and Action -- References -- Chapter Nine The International Problem and the Question of the Best Political Regime -- The Machiavellian Problem and the Question of the Best Political Regime: The Distinction between Foreign and Domestic Policies
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
The Kantian Problem and the Question of an International Order: Aron as a Thinker of Political Prudence between Realism and Idealism
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Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781839980046/type/BOOK
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