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Raymond Aron's classic two-volume study of the sociological tradition is 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 question of modernity: What constitutes the essence of the modern order that, having emerged in the eighteenth century, still shapes our experience? With scrupulous fairness, Aron examines the thought and arguments of the major social thinkers in this two volume set.

Note biographique

Raymond Aron was the foremost political and social theorist of post-World War Two France. Born in Paris in 1905 he studied at the Ecole Normale Superieur, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre, later to become a life-long friend and intellectual sparring partner. After the war he taught at the Sorbonne from 1955-1968, also maintaining a long commitment to journalism, first in Le Figaro then in L'Express. He was one of a handful of scholars to have two books appear on the Times Literary Supplement's 100 Most Influential Books since World War II: The Opium of the Intellectuals (1955) and Memoirs (1983). He wrote many books, some of the best known being Main Currents of Sociological Thoughts (1967); Clausewitz: Philosopher of War (1976) and The Imperial Republic: The United States and the World 1945-1973 (1974). He died in Paris in 1983.

Table des matières

Volume One:

Foreword to the Routledge Classics edition

Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition

1. Introduction
2. Montesquieu
3. Auguste Comte
4. Karl Marx
5. Alexis de Tocqueville
6. The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Volume Two:

Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition

1. Introduction

2. Preface

3. Introduction

4. Emile Durkheim

5. Vilfredo Pareto

6. Max Weber

Conclusion

Bibliographies

Index

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Détails