The Anthem companion to Raymond Aron / edited by Joachim Stark and Christopher Adair-Toteff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stark, Joachim, editor.

Adair-Toteff, Christopher, editor.

Series:

Anthem companions to sociology.

Anthem companions to sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aron, Raymond, 1905-1983.

Aron, Raymond.

Political science--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Political science.

Sociology--History--20th century.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2022.

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 ramifications of its day-to-day life. <br><br>Aron experts from a total of seven countries examine his sociology in detail starting with his epistemological studies on the limits of objective knowledge in history and the social sciences, in which he moves away from Durkheim's approach and instead adopts Max Weber's sociology of understanding. His comparative sociology of industrial society in its market economy and planned economy variants, its social stratification, the structure of the ruling elites and the pluralistic and one-party political regimes are presented, as is Aron's analysis of the dialectic of modern society between the idea of equality and the authority structures in the state and the economic process. This is accompanied by Aron's lifelong criticism of those intellectuals who hope that a messianic ideology will abolish all social contradictions.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapters Int-Con

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

Chapter Two Aron, Weber and Nationalism

Aron and Weber

Aron on Weber

Response

Aron beyond Weber

Chapter Three Equivocal and Inexhaustible: Aron, Marx and Marxism

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

Chapter Five A New Era in the Human Adventure: Industrial Society and Economic Growth

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

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

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

The Kantian Problem and the Question of an International Order: Aron as a Thinker of Political Prudence between Realism and Idealism

International Relations and the Predominance of Politics: The Political Indeterminacy Problem

Chapter Ten War and Irrationality: Aron and Pareto

Great Yet Forgotten?

Measuring War

Irrationality and Conflict

Aron's Pareto

Conclusion: Aron on Liberty

Shared Themes

On Liberty

Aron, Weber and Freedom

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83998-005-2

1-83998-004-4

OCLC:

1491307934