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The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron /

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 ramific...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stark, Joachim
Otros Autores: Adair-Toteff, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2022.
Colección:Anthem companions to sociology
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  • 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