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	Raymond Aron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Raymond Aron (March 14, 1905 — October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist.
		Son of a Jewish lawyer, Aron received a doctorate in 1930 in the philosophy of history from the École Normale Supérieure and studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po)..
		Aron argued that multiple citizenship could not break the indelible link between the individual citizen and the nation-state he or she was a member of.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raymond_Aron (357 words)

	Books in Review: In Defense of Political Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aron is now recognized, by all except a small coterie of leftist theorists, as the preeminent French political thinker of the postwar years.
		Aron, like the neoconservatives, stresses the need for civic education; Hayek, like most libertarian and contemporary liberal thinkers, takes for granted the continuance of premodern traditions of virtue that provide the moral capital of liberal civilization but are in danger of being squandered when liberty decays to license.
		Mahoney's patient efforts to return Aron to his proper stature in America as one of the foremost philosophers and political thinkers of the twentieth century will perhaps be assisted by the exhaustion of the storm that sent those waves, an exhaustion that is in no small part due to the steadfast resistance of Aron himself.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9503/reviews/anderson.html (2094 words)

	Raymond Aron, France (1905-1983) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberal International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Paris, France, Aron was a sociologist, historian, and political commentator known for his scepticism of ideological orthodoxy.
		Throughout his life Aron was active as a journalist, and in 1947 he became a highly influential columnist for Le Figaro, a position he held for 30 years.
		Aron upheld a rationalist humanism that was often contrasted with the Marxist existentialism of his great contemporary, Jean-Paul Sartre.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=1021 (351 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Homage to Raymond Aron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Raymond Aron, who died in Paris last October at the age of seventy-eight, was one of the great intellectuals of Europe's liberal tradition, and France's most lucid political writer in this century.
		...Aron's argument was that the statesman has the moral duty to recognize international relations for what they are, to calculate first of all the balance of forces, and to understand the selfishness of his own nation and that of others...
		...Aron wrote that the contrast between the aspirations expressed in John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and Edward M. Kennedy's habitual campaign against the American military budget was a portentous symbol of American decline...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V77I5P41-1.htm (6728 words)

	Books in Review: Raymond Aron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brian C. Anderson attributes the new French attention to Aron’s "lifelong resistance to the temptation toward totalitarianism and the literary politics that usually attended that temptation," which is suddenly in style.
		With St. Augustine, Aron understood that we are always in the Empire, always born into a political configuration of some sort.
		Aron walked a fine line between an excess of determinism and an equally unacceptable radical freedom or voluntarism.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9811/elshtain.html (979 words)

	Raymond Aron Biography / Biography of Raymond Aron Biography
		Raymond Aron (1905-1983) excelled as an academic scholar, teacher, and journalist.
		Raymond Aron was born in Paris, France, on March 14, 1905, the year that brought the separation of church and state in that country.
		Aron had already graduated from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, the intellectual center of some of France's greatest thinkers, and in 1928, when only 23 years old, he won his agrégation in philosophy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-raymond-aron (229 words)

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		Aron's title is an inversion of Marx's contemptuous remark that religion is "the opium of the people." He quotes the French writer Simone Weil's sly reversal of Marx: "Marxism is undoubtedly a religion, in the lowest sense of the word.
		Aron avoided the besetting liability of the Enlightenment by subjecting its ideals to the same scrutiny it reserved for its adversaries.
		Aron's generosity of spirit was a coefficient of his recognition that reality was complex, knowledge limited, and action essential.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5242341&postID=110609639074491426 (1145 words)

	Epinions.com - Raymond Aron's Big Three
		The first premise that Aron touches on is that the rise of the technological surprise had a profound impact upon the civilizations of Europe after World War I. He writes about the role that the technological surprise had on the times and emphasizes the importance of the rise of the technological surprise.
		Aron blames technology for breaking down the notion of pacification and appeasement, for eliminating any hope to settle matters through diplomatic measures, and clearly, instilling within the people a fervent belief that through means of volatility and hostility coupled with technology goals could be achieved in a far quicker manner.
		Aron writes, “At the same time, the secular religions do offer a substitute system of unification.” (Aron 190) Therefore, it can be argued that secular religions aid in the organizing of enthusiasm because the rise in secular religions brings about a unification of people that are all organized under one banner, whatever that may be.
	www.epinions.com /content_3293225092 (1383 words)

	National Review: The committed observer, by Raymond Aron: conversations with Jean-Louis Missika and Dominique Wolton. - ...
		The central segment of Aron's intellectual career was his long postwar serivice with Le Figaro, where he took a decidedly unfashionable anti-Soviet and even pro-American line and resolutely refused to be swept up by the dominant Sartrean claim that the future of humanity lay with the "socialist" regimes.
		Aron reminds his interviewers, both of whom are of the student generation of 1968, that pro-Soviet intellectuals like Sartre were indeed aware of the existence of the Gulag.
		Aron's religiously observant Jewish grandfather, whom he never met but to whose memory he wishes to remain faithful, was perhaps better prepared for the exigencies of an uncertain future than was his eminent and admirable descendant.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v36/ai_3216043 (1208 words)

	Raymond Aron
		Aron’s title is an inversion of Marx’s contemptuous remark that religion is “the opium of the people.” He quotes Simone Weil’s sly reversal as an epigraph: “Marxism is undoubtedly a religion, in the lowest sense of the word.
		Aron cannily reminds us that the more extravagant answers to this question are often the most malevolent: they promise everything; they tend to deliver misery and impoverishment.
		Aron’s twofold task was to remind us, first, that there is no human nature unsullied by the Fall and, second, to suggest, as does orthodox Christianity, that what prophets of the absolute decry as a disaster was in fact a “fortunate fall,” a condition of our humanity.
	www.lbouza.net /aronid.htm (2951 words)

	The Civilian Analysts, in Their Pride and Their Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aron does not examine the reasons why the threat over Cuba was unhesitant and apparently unlimited while that over Hanoi was apologetic and vacillating, and this is unfortunate, for the reasons have to do more with the personal role of the Secretary of Defense than with his analysts.
		As Aron expressed it: “The analysts of nuclear problems [or of global strategy in the nuclear age] have become the diplomatic counsellors of the Prince, for the evil or the glory of Princes and analysts.” (p.
		Aron recognizes there is no certainty as to the result “if one of the two super-powers was to try, by a sudden act of aggression carried out with all the resources at its disposal, to disarm and force the capitulation of the other.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1971/jul-aug/parrish.html (5090 words)

	National Review: A Witness - The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century - ...
		Aron's influence as thinker and teacher (first at the Sorbonne and later at the College de France) helped spark a resurgence in serious French political thought, such as one finds in the work of his students (including the brilliant political philosopher Pierre Manent) and in the pages of the prestigious quarterly journal he founded, Commentaire.
		This new collection of Aron's writings, much of it translated for the first time, is an abridgement of a book assembled by his friends and former students and published in France a few years ago.
		Aron was a keen analyst and determined opponent of the "secular religions"-a phrase he coined during World War II-of Fascism and Communism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_21_54/ai_93370312 (1368 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Aron said: “Leon Blum was a superior man, but his intellectual formation dated from before 1914.” That is, he lacked the understanding of aggression surpassing all rationality that Aron had come to know in Hitler’s Germany in the early 1930s, and that he would later recognize in Stalin’s Russia.
		Aron was given to wondering whether NATO was not the beginning of an erosion of national sovereignty.
		Aron frequently compared Communism to a religion de salut, or religion of salvation, and when he did, the specific religion to which he referred was Islam.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.22275,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (4288 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection - Raymond Aron - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Raymond Aron has won the respect and admiration of leading figures from all spheres of twentieht-centruy life and from all points of teh poilitical spectrum.
		Raymond Aron was unique among intellectuals: at once a journalist and scholar, he was a prolific writer on, and noted expert in, a huge aray of subjects from philosophy to military strategy to economics.
		Raymond Aron is one of the most interesting intellectuals of this century.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0841911142.html (774 words)

	The Continuing Influence of Kelsen on the General Perception of the Discipline of International Law 3 The Critique of ...
		Raymond Aron has also a special interest for international law because he engages closely not only with Kelsen but also with Hersch Lauterpacht who insists, as well, upon the supremacy of international law over the sovereignty of the state in his work The Function of Law in the International Community (1933) (see next section).
		Aron makes the same objection as Morganthau, adding more graphically that diplomats and soldiers are not conscious of themselves as legal executioners of international court judgments.
		Aron remarks that the concepts of its multilateral treaty law, such as the right to self-determination of peoples, collective security, and so on, are very vague and in need of interpretation.
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol9/No2/ab7-02.html (1774 words)

	Commentary Magazine - In Defense of Decadent Europe, by Raymond Aron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...Aron therefore sets out to demonstrate that Europe, with all its defects and despite its unquestioned decline, is infinitely superior to the Soviet alternative in every area of endeavor (save military 82 might), and that the attacks against it are based on myth and confusion...
		...Raymond Aron's France, in the historic elections of 1978, rejected the totalitarian temptation...
		...Aron urges that his fellow Europeans embrace their ancient calling: "rejecting servitude is not enough: one must also recognize the dangers, and face up to them...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V68I3P84-1.htm (1866 words)

	Raymond Aron on the Use of Force and Legitimacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Raymond Aron, beyond his rich theories and deep analyses, remains for me above all a professor of moral and intellectual sanity.
		From his devotion to these two principles, Aron achieved in his work a remarkable mixture of firmness and moderation, an awareness of the complexities of the world together with an understanding of the need for action and for choice.
		This quality of informed yet firm moderation means that Aron remains very relevant to the disputes between Americans and Europeans today, and particularly to the issue of legitimacy for using force.
	www.brook.edu /fp/cuse/analysis/hassner20050201.htm (407 words)

	Lutheran Surrealism
		I have always been attracted by Raymond Aron, Alain Finkelkraut, Luc Ferry, and what has been called the neo-Kantians who came in the wake of the post-structuralists and postmodernists.
		Aron writes that to be a Marxist-Leninist and to be intelligent and honest is an impossible combination.
		The liberal conservative Raymond Aron suggests that to hold on to Algeria was a mistake, or to try to hold on to Vietnam was a mistake.
	lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com (1656 words)

	An American Dilemma: Empire or Containment? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aron makes no pretense of having written a diplomatic history of the period examining every twist and turn of policy; instead he has focused on the larger issues in Europe and Asia, with lesser attention to the nature and impact of U.S. policy regarding the Third World.
		Nevertheless, Aron's overall assessment is complimentary, attributing the general international economic well-being of the last twenty-five years to the success of capitalism, and he observes that, although the United States was the leading world power for most of that period, it did not aspire to rule.
		Aron is extremely critical of America military policy in both the bombing of North Vietnam and the "search and destroy" operations in the South.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1975/mar-apr/collins.html (3426 words)

	Book review by JD
		Raymond Aron is probably known in this country mainly as the one important French intellectual of the last half-century who was not anti-American.
		Born in 1905, he was a member of that “witness generation” well-placed to observe the entire astonishing spectacle of the 20th century (in the John Lukacs sense, i.e., from 1914 to 1989) in all its horror and glory.
		Aron starts from Voltaire’s description of 18th-century Europe as a Great Republic, whose various states, while frequently at war, had a sort of watchful understanding with each other, principally on the point that none of them should be permitted hegemony.
	www.olimu.com /journalism/Texts/Reviews/DawnOfUniversalHistory.htm (886 words)

	Raymond Aron - an idealist with common sense - 30 June 2001
		Raymond Aron - an idealist with common sense
		Raymond Aron's famous work The Opium of the Intellectuals has been re-released 45 years after it was first published in France.
		American critic Roger Kimball explains that Aron's great virtue - common sense - is as rare today as it was in the French intellectual maelstrom of the 1950s.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2001jun30_com.html (207 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Committed Observer - Raymond Aron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Raymond Aron, who died in October, was a brilliant, erudite intellectual, one of the few authoritative voices of Europe's old liberal tradition.
		He saw his double career as complementary-"journalists are just as intelligent as university professors, often more so." With Montesquieu and Tocqueville as models, Aron wrote his commentary on contemporary events as a practical moralist, a liberal realist, imbued with civisme, and at odds with all the parties, especially the left, with which he basically sympathized.
		Impatient with all ideologues, a foe of all totalitarianisms always, he was an early advocate of Algerian independence and a critic of all Marxist and Marxisand tendencies.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19831201fabook12450/raymond-aron/the-committed-observer.html?mode=print (253 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Opium of the Intellectuals, by Raymond Aron; German Sociology, by Raymond Aron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Opium of the Intellectuals, by Raymond Aron; German Sociology, by Raymond Aron
		...Like Mendes-France himself, M. Aron is an embattled moderate-both men are Jews, which helps to explain their relative isolation in a country deeply split between Catholic traditionalists and anti-clerical radicals -and an unashamed admirer of Anglo-American empiricism, liberalism, and even capitalism -a dirty word to most Frenchmen, whether of the left or the right...
		...While it is fairly easy for a critic of M. Aron's erudition to score against opponents whose understanding of the modern world is fatally handicapped by intellectual parochialism, there remains the question whether he has not made things needlessly difficult for himself by trying to conduct the debate at three or four different levels simultaneously...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V25I2P90-1.htm (1200 words)

	Raymond Aron -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of a Jewish jurist, Aron obtained his doctorate in 1930 from the École Normale Supérieure with a thesis on the philosophy of history.
		The Canadian-American actor Raymond Massey became widely known to theater and movie audiences in the United States for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Robert Sherwood's ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois'.
		It was a role with which he became identified in spite of the great number of other parts he took in dozens of plays and films.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009594 (783 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Edwy Plenel \| A Taste for News
		Exercising the profession at the crossroads of the intellectual and political worlds, Aron did not espouse the recurrent prejudices towards our breed, but nonetheless assimilated "the taste for journalism," "the temptation of simplifying," and the "futility" that attaches to ephemeral work.
		Consequently Raymond Aron writes (on page 249 of his Mémoires), "I have always lacked the taste for news, the characteristic of the journalist,".
		Reading his memoirs, one feels that he was tempted to oppose this culture woven out of impatience to the calm distance of someone who comments or analyzes; an opposition too clear cut for him to accept altogether, since the news, pertinent, prioritized, elected, chosen, found, uncovered, is also what gives food for thought.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/121904H.shtml (913 words)

	The Very Best Books : Raymond Aron
		This concise and penetrating analysis introduces students to the life and thought of one of the giants of twentieth- century French intellectual life.
		This accessible study of Aron's thought and the thought of his contemporaries will enhance any syllabus for classes on modern and contemporary political thought.
		It is briskly written, and really explores Aron's thought on history, totalitarianism, pluralism, and other imprtant debates.
	www.elise.com /store/0847687570/Raymond_Aron.html (91 words)

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