The Companion to Raymond Aron

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Life and Works: Raymond Aron, Philosopher and Freedom Fighter....Pages 3-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-17
Raymond Aron on War and Strategy: A Framework for Conceptualizing International Relations Today....Pages 19-30
In the “Era of Tyrannies”: The International Order from Nazism to the Cold War....Pages 31-44
Aron and the Cold War: “Brother Enemies”....Pages 45-57
Forward to the Past: History and Theory in Raymond Aron’s Peace and War....Pages 59-75
“Citizen Clausewitz”: Aron’s Clausewitz in Defense of Political Freedom....Pages 77-90
Fin De Siècle: Aron and the End of the Bipolar System....Pages 91-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-103
Raymond Aron and the Notion of History: Taking Part in History....Pages 105-117
The Question of Political Regime and the Problems of Democracy: Aron and the Alternative of Tocqueville....Pages 119-135
The Totalitarian Negation of Man: Raymond Aron on Ideology and Totalitarianism....Pages 137-148
A Machiavellian Conception of Democracy? Democracy and Conflict....Pages 149-162
Revisiting Aron’s The Class Struggle: Rereading Fifty Years after....Pages 163-176
The Origins of the “End of Ideology?” Raymond Aron and Industrial Civilization....Pages 177-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-195
Raymond Aron and Immanuel Kant: Politics between Morality and History....Pages 197-203
Statesmanship and Ethics: Aron, Max Weber, and Politics as a Vocation....Pages 205-216
Aron and Marxism: the Aronian Interpretation of Marx....Pages 217-230
“Moderate Machiavellianism”: Aron, Machiavelli, and the Modern Machiavellians....Pages 231-243
Montesquieu and Aron on Democracy’s Virtues and Corruption: the Question of Political Legitimacy....Pages 245-260
Raymond Aron and Alexis De Tocqueville: Political Moderation, Liberty, and the Role of the Intellectuals....Pages 261-274
Front Matter....Pages 191-195
Epilogue: Raymond Aron and History in the Making....Pages 275-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-304