Title The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron / edited by Joachim Stark and Christopher Adair-Toteff

Published London : Anthem Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) Series Anthem companions to sociology 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 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 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 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 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 Summary Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political ramifications of its day-to-day life Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes The Kantian Problem and the Question of an International Order: Aron as a Thinker of Political Prudence between Realism and Idealism Subject Aron, Raymond, 1905-1983. SUBJECT Aron, Raymond, 1905-1983 fast Subject Sociology -- History -- 20th century Sociology Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Adair-Toteff, Christopher ISBN 9781839980046 1839980044

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