Raymond Aron
Biographic Data
| ID | 124040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Aron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Aron |
| SIGNATURE | ARON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collge de France |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 274 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 442 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 274 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
L'isolationnisme américain (1973)
La philosophie de l'histoire
Défense nationale et unification européenne
Derniers mots sur la politique
Sur la France de 1940 à 1944
Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought
Lectures de Pareto
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
In Defense of Decadent Europe
Raymond Aron's In Defense of Decadent Europe was first conceived at a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies. The postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and its Marxist-Leninist theoretical foundation; the detailed empiri…
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
This is the second of Raymond Aron's 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: Émile 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 elit…
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
This is the first part of Raymond Aron's landmark two-volume study of the sociological tradition—arguably the definitive work of its kind. More than a work of reconstruction, Aron's study is, at its deepest level, an engagement with the very question of modernity: how did the intellectual currents which emerged in the eighteenth century shape the modern political and philosophical order? With scrupulous fairness, Aron examines the thoughts and ar…
La fondation de la V e République et l'avenir du gaullisme
Final Remarks on Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto thinks against both barbarians and civilized people, against both despots and naïve democrats, against both philosophers who claim to discover the ultimate truth of things and scientists who imagine that only science has any importance. Because of the plurality of his enemies, the intrinsic meaning of his work cannot but remain uncertain. Moreover, Pareto explicitly refuses to decide what goal the individual or society should set …
Elites and Cycles of Mutual Dependence
The formula of mutual dependence is intended to oppose the formula, attributed to Marxism, of the dependence of the whole of society upon the economic or "interest" variable. Vilfredo Pareto would have accepted this formula, adding that precisely what constitutes history is the alteration ad infinitum between phases of skepticism—and often of civilization and intelligence as well—and phases of patriotic or religious faith. It is fluctuations of r…
The Conception of Science
Scientific behavior is a combination of rational action in relation to a goal and rational action in relation to a value. The value is truth, the rationality is that of the rules of logic and research, a respect for which is indispensable to the validity of the results obtained. In Max Weber&s;s eyes, incompleteness is a fundamental characteristic of modern science. The Weberian idea of comprehension is largely borrowed from Karl Jaspers, at a ti…
Residues and Derivations
In studying the genus of residues Vilfredo Pareto proceeds to make a merciless and interesting analysis of egalitarian demands, whose hypocrisy he is eager to unmask. The study of derivations in the Treatise on Sociology has several aspects. One may examine verbal manifestations in terms of logic and show if, when, and how men&s;s various verbal manifestations deviate from logic. If paternal authority does not suffice, the mother resorts to a thi…
From Analysis to Synthesis
On the basis of the first observations, Vilfredo Pareto raises the question whether the residues, which are themselves an expression of sentiments, are in turn determined by external causes of a material nature. At a certain period in his life, Pareto was influenced by what is called social Darwinism, that is, the application to human societies of some of Darwin&s;s ideas, such as the struggle for survival and natural selection. And he was inclin…
Philosophy and Morality
Emile Durkheim&s;s was unquestionably a philosophical temperament and even a religious and prophetic temperament. He spoke of sociology with the moral fervor of the prophet. It has often been said that Durkheim presented a social philosophy in the name of sociology, that he was more philosopher than sociologist. Durkheim&s;s theories of education are inspired by the same conceptions of man and society as are all his books. Education is a social p…
Socialism
Socialism is a better, a more intelligent organization of collective life whose aim and result would be to integrate individuals within social frameworks or communities invested with moral authority and capable of performing an educational function. According to Emile Durkheim&s;s definition of socialism, then, the social question is above all a question of organization . But it is also a question of moralization . The conclusion of the lectures …
Philosophy of Values and Sociology of Religion
The Weberian philosophy of value has its origin in Kantian philosophy. This means that at the outset it makes a radical distinction between facts and values. It has often been said that Max Weber tried to refute Karl Marx and to explain economic behavior by religions instead of presupposing religion as the superstructure of a society whose infrastructure consisted of the relations of production. Men make value judgments; they create values; histo…
Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (1)
Les Formes elementaires de la vie religieuse represents Emile Durkheim&s;s solution to the antithesis between science and religion. Science, by discovering the underlying reality of all religion, does not re-create a religion, but it gives us confidence in society&s;s capacity to provide itself in every age with whatever gods it needs. The Les Formes elementaires de la vie religieuse may be considered from three points of view because it brings t…
Science and Action
Max Weber tried to discover the rules observed by the man of action, the laws of political life. He wondered what meaning man can give his existence in the world, what relationship there is between a man&s;s religious ideas and the way he lives, the attitudes he adopts toward the economy and the relation he establishes with the polity. Max Weber had used the antithesis between generalized reconstruction and particularized reconstruction in terms …
The Significance of Pareto’s Work
A number of Italian Fascist intellectuals actually did call themselves followers of Pareto; they presented themselves as nondecadent bourgeois taking over the role of a decadent bourgeoisie. They justified their violence by claiming that it was a necessary response to the violence of the workers. According to Vilfredo Pareto, a logico-experimental study of nonlogical behavior should be morally and politically neutral, free of value judgments and …
Peace and War
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
In this second volume of Main Currents of Sociological Thought, Raymond Aron continues the analysis, begun in the first volume, of the "great doctrines of historical sociol-ogy." Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Emile Durkheim, the great French theorist of consensus, who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilf…
Paix et guerre entre les nations
Social Structure and the Ruling Class
Main Currents in Sociological Thought
This is the first of Raymond Aron's magisterial two-volume treatment of the sociological tradition—perhaps the definitive work of its kind. The second volume treating Durkheim, Pareto, and Weber is scheduled to appear in spring 1998. More than a work of reconstruction, Aron's study is, at its deepest level, an engagement with the question of modernity: What constitutes the essence of the new modern order that, having emerged in the eighteenth cen…
Penser la guerre, Clausewitz
Democracy and Totalitarianism
Social Structure and the Ruling Class
The Nature of Conflict
Qu'est-ce qu'une théorie des relations internationales
Aron Raymond. Qu'est-ce qu'une théorie des relations internationales ?. In: Revue française de science politique, 17e année, n°5, 1967. pp. 837-861
World Technology and Human Destiny
Classe sociale, classe politique, classe dirigeante
Les sociologues ne s'accordent pas sur la definition du terme de classe, soit qu'ils ne l'emploient pas tous pour dèsigner la même réalité soit qu'ils aient une vision autre de la réalité à laquelle il s'applique. Du moins admettent-ils tous que le concept de classe est légitime et que des groupes sociaux méritent d'être appelés classes. La légitimité même de concepts comme ceux de « classe politique » ou de « classe dirigeante » ou d' « élite » …
French Sociology
Alternation in Government in the Industrialized Countries
I MUST CONFESS THAT I DID NOT CHOOSE THE SUBJECT OF this article out of theoretical or scientific interest. My dreams have not been peopled by the merits of replacing one team by another in government. It was FranGois Mitterrand's election to the Presidency of the French Republic to which I reacted in a way that I shall not conceal from you: alternation in government is not in itself a blessing. Let us admit that it is desirable in general and in…
Le Spectateur engagé
Progress and Disillusion
The Problem of Historical Knowledge
Memoirs
Raymond Aron has won the respect and admiration of leading figures from all spheres of twentieth-century life and from all points of the political 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, penetrating ideas. His dispassionate, probing analyses of international affairs, ethnic conflicts, social and economic problems, and contemporary histo…
La jeunesse d’Auguste Comte et la formation du positivisme
L'essence du totalitarisme
Cet article fait part d'une analyse du livre de Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarism. L'A, Raymond Aron, a publie cet article en 1954, et se penche pour la premiere fois a l'epoque sur une comparaison entre totalitarisme nazi et totalitarisme communiste
The Frustrated Commentator
Journal Article The Frustrated Commentator: An Evaluation of the Work of Raymond Aron Get access Urs Luterbacher Urs Luterbacher Institute of Advanced International Studies, Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 1985, Pages 39–49, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600478 Published: 01 March 1985
Une sociologie des relations internationales
Aron Raymond. Une sociologie des relations internationales. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1963, 4-3. pp. 307-320
Dimensions de la Conscience Historique
En quête d'une philosophie de la politique étrangère
Aron Raymond. En quête d'une philosophie de la politique étrangère. In: Revue française de science politique, 3e année, n°1, 1953. pp. 69-91
The Dawn of Universal History
La jeunesse d’Auguste Comte et la formation du positivisme
La Sociologie Allemande Contemporaine.
La sociologie de Pareto
Remarques sur L'objectivitè des sciences sociales.1
The Problem of Historical Knowledge
El Concepto de Clase
Reflections on the Foreign Policy of France
Journal Article Reflections on the Foreign Policy of France Get access Raymond Aron Raymond Aron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1945, Pages 437–447, https://doi.org/10.2307/3018341 Published: 01 October 1945
Social Structure and the Ruling Class
Social Structure and the Ruling Class
La Philosophic Critique de l'Histoire. Essai sur une Theorie Allemande de l'Histoire
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access La Philosophic Critique de l’Histoire. Essai sur une thiorie allemande de l’histoire.. By Raymond Aron. Second edition. (Paris: J. Vrin. 1950. Pp. 324). Jonathan Cohen Jonathan Cohen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, July 1951, Pages 376–377, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216563 Published: 01 July 1951
De la paix sans victoire. Note sur les relations de la stratégie et de la politique
Aron Raymond. De la paix sans victoire. Note sur les relations de la stratégie et de la politique. In: Revue française de science politique, 1e année, n°3, 1951. pp. 241-255
France in the Cold War
France, Still the Third Republic
French Public Opinion and the Atlantic Treaty
French Public Opinion and the Atlantic Treaty Get access Raymond Aron Raymond Aron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 1952, Pages 1–8, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604965 Published: 01 January 1952
En quête d'une philosophie de la politique étrangère
Aron Raymond. En quête d'une philosophie de la politique étrangère. In: Revue française de science politique, 3e année, n°1, 1953. pp. 69-91
The Century of Total War
De l'analyse des constellations diplomatiques
Aron Raymond. De l'analyse des constellations diplomatiques. In: Revue française de science politique, 4e année, n°2, 1954. pp. 237-251
Limits to the Powers of the United Nations
Note sur la stratification du pouvoir
Aron Raymond. Note sur la stratification du pouvoir. In: Revue française de science politique, 4e année, n°3, 1954. pp. 469-483
France
The Temper of Western Europe
Europe and Air Power
Électeurs, partis et élus
Aron Raymond. Électeurs, partis et élus. In: Revue française de science politique, 5e année, n°2, 1955. pp. 245-266
Réflexions sur la politique et la science politique française
Aron Raymond. Réflexions sur la politique et la science politique française. In: Revue française de science politique, 5e année, n°1, 1955. pp. 5-20
Workers, Proletarians, and Intellectuals
The term proletariat became ambiguous when it no longer denoted industrial workers alone.In the writings of Marx himself, one can trace the origin of a distinction between the working class and the proletariat, between factory workers as such and the total dehumanization which the term proletariat suggests. This distinction remains a virtual one for Marx and Marxists, because neither the prophet nor his disciples questioned, officially, the coinc…
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