Affiliation:
1. Assumption College, USA,
Abstract
Central to his own fruitful study of modern society and politics, of the stakes and twists-and-turns of the dramatic twentieth century, was Raymond Aron's fifty year engagement with `Marx and Marxism'. In a series of lecture courses (and elsewhere) Aron provided a comprehensive, balanced, and judicious exposition and appreciation of Marx's intellectual itinerary. On one hand, Marx helpfully highlighted various tensions in liberal-bourgeois society. On the other hand, however, his apolitical, materialistic explanations of them and, especially, his prediction of capitalism's explosive self-overcoming proved grossly inadequate. In addition to being a special sort of social scientist, Marx was a Promethean humanist who rejected all natural and social limits and who claimed to scientifically predict the coming of the true and real City of Man. Aron's own `balanced social analysis' and his humane, sober, reformist thought stand in stark contrast.
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science
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16 articles.
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1. Ideas in Context;Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century;2019-11-30
2. Index;Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century;2019-11-30
3. Select Bibliography;Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century;2019-11-30
4. Conclusion;Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century;2019-11-30
5. Raymond Aron and the Liberal Moment in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought;Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century;2019-11-30