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In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles a twentieth century with a management of an active participant. Combining objectivity with satirical questioning, Aron's reading of movements and people reminds us of what was unequivocally during stake. Whether charting a arise of Fascism and Marxism and their particular descents into totalitarianism, or a United States's purpose as a world's final remaining superpower, Aron was a nondogmatic thinker who emphasized realism over any friendship to theory. The outcome is story that is reduction endangered about where it falls on a domestic spectrum than about removing it right.
This collection of essays and book excerpts covering seminal moments in a domestic story of a 20th century by French egghead and Le Figaro columnist Aron-who died in Paris in 1983-might be a small unenlightened and daunting, though close, studious readers will be abundantly rewarded for their efforts. Written between 1939 to 1973, a bulk of a pieces date from a 1950s, when Aron was endangered with examining a causes and tellurian effects of World Wars we and II, European nationalism, French imperialism, Marxism, Fascism and more. It's not a large widen to find ideas that will still pronounce to a present: Aron, a realist, consistently refuses to conflate troops and dignified superiority. Nor does he perspective fight as an inevitability, though rather as an ever-present probability that should be avoided by a scold choices: "perhaps a deficiency of a good fight will strike historians of a destiny as a homogeneous of a good peace." His was not an confident voice, though a powerful, secular and severe one. (Sept. 15)
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"A contingency review for each competition of autocracy and narrow-minded of a chastened or mature liberalism." -- The New Criterion
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
By Raymond Aron
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1192991 in Books
- Published on: 2003-08-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.53 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 544 pages
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- ISBN13: 9780465004089
- Condition: New
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This collection of essays and book excerpts covering seminal moments in a domestic story of a 20th century by French egghead and Le Figaro columnist Aron-who died in Paris in 1983-might be a small unenlightened and daunting, though close, studious readers will be abundantly rewarded for their efforts. Written between 1939 to 1973, a bulk of a pieces date from a 1950s, when Aron was endangered with examining a causes and tellurian effects of World Wars we and II, European nationalism, French imperialism, Marxism, Fascism and more. It's not a large widen to find ideas that will still pronounce to a present: Aron, a realist, consistently refuses to conflate troops and dignified superiority. Nor does he perspective fight as an inevitability, though rather as an ever-present probability that should be avoided by a scold choices: "perhaps a deficiency of a good fight will strike historians of a destiny as a homogeneous of a good peace." His was not an confident voice, though a powerful, secular and severe one. (Sept. 15)
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A contingency review for each competition of autocracy and narrow-minded of a chastened or mature liberalism." -- The New Criterion
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
By Raymond Aron
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