History and the Dialectic of Violence: An Analysis of Sartre's Critique de la Raison Dialectique

Politics & Social Sciences

Raymond, Aron

Philosophy

Harper&Row

320p paperback, excellent copy, very good indeed, first printing, probably never used

Progress and Disillusion: Dialectics of Modern Society (Pelican)

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society (Goldbacks)

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Aron presents the leading ideas rather than the total work of the writers of the day. Very few sociologists would dare to undertake such an enterprise and fewer still could make it so impressive an achievement.

Main Currents in Sociological Thought I - Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville - The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Anchor

A brilliant analysis of the modern world and the intellectual's place in it. "...[A] rewarding book, full of ideas, not ideology." Crane Brinton, New York Times.

The Opium of the Intellectuals

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

W.W. Norton & Coompany

Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is, "War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means," a working definition of war which has won wide acceptance.

On War

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

W.W.Norton&Company

France Steadfast and Changing: The Fourth to the Fifth Republic

Harvard University Press

Reevaluates the ideas of the German general, shows how his writings have been misinterpreted, and applies Clausewitzian theory to twentieth century political history

Clausewitz: Philosopher of war

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Not Avail

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 about social and political reality-in all its mundane imperfections and tragic complexities.
Aron explodes the three "myths" of radical thought: the Left, the Revolution, and the Proletariat. Each of these ideas, Aron shows, are ideological, mystifying rather than illuminating. He also provides a fascinating sociology of intellectual life and a powerful critique of historical determinism in the classically restrained prose for which he is justly famous.
For this new edition, prepared by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson as part of Transaction's ongoing "Aron Project," political scientist Harvey Mansfield provides a luminous introduction that underscores the permanent relevance of Aron's work. The new edition also includes as an appendix "Fanaticism, Prudence, and Faith," a remarkable essay that Aron wrote to defend Opium from its critics and to explain further his view of the proper role of political thinking. The book will be of interest to all students of political theory, history, and sociology.

World

Routledge

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber (Routledge Classics)

‘The lucid elegance of his thought and style and his ability to come to grips with the essential aspects of a thinker without being distracted by irrelevant detail combine to make this a most valuable contribution.’ – American Sociological Review  ‚One of his great gifts as a teacher was to provide one both with the intellectual capacities with which one could then establish one’s independence, and with the arguments one needed to preserve and promote the values one shared with him. ‘ – Stanley Hoffman, New York Review of Books  This is the second of Raymond Aron's now classic two-volume survey of the sociological tradition―arguably the definitive work of its kind. Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Emile Durkheim, who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian "neo-Machiavellian" who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber, who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization.  Aron presents rich portraits of these three thinkers, drawing out the enduring insights that remain in their wor. At the same time he reflects criticallly on Durkheim's project for a science of society, Pareto's critique of humanitarianism, and Weber's tragic pessimism. Above all the book is remarkable for demonstrating Aron’s lifelong indebtedness to and divergence from the thought of Max Weber, the sociologist par excellence, in Aron's view.  A foreword by the eminent French political theorist Pierre Manent highlights Aron’s unique contribution to political philosophy as well as the history of sociological thought, while Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson provide a helpful introduction situating the book within the corpus of Aron's work as a whole.   This magisterial work is essential reading for sociologists, and political scientists, philosophers and historians.

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