The Routledge International Handbook on Raymond Aron

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-54002-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This handbook is the most comprehensive volume devoted to Raymond Aron’s manifold interests.

Providing the most up to date scholarship on Aron’s work - from his earliest to his last writings - it reveals him to be more than a philosopher and a sociologist; he was also a first-rate political thinker, an expert on international relations, and an insightful cultural critic. With attention to Aron’s politics, his conceptions of history and his ideas regarding the future, as well as his thought on war and peace, industry and ideology, it also considers Aron’s connections with other leading figures such as Julien Freund, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. A demonstration of Aron’s status as one of Europe’s greatest 20th century thinkers, The Routledge International Handbook on Raymond Aron will appeal to all those interested in appreciating the breadth and depth of Raymond Aron’s works and his contributions to our understanding of many modern socio-political questions.

As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in the history of philosophy, the history of sociology, social theory and political sociology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adair-Toteff, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Introduction  1. Introduction: Who was Raymond Aron?  Part Two: Sociology and Sociological Ideas  2. What Did Sociology Mean to Raymond Aron? 3. Raymond Aron’s Understanding of Modernity.  4. Grandes Doctrines, Main Currents, Étapes?: Origins and Meanings of Aron’s Concept of Stages in Sociological Thought  Part Three: People and Work  5. Carl Schmitt and Raymond Aron on Freedom. 6. The Measured Rebel and the Committed Observer: Aron and Camus 7. Not Quite Kindred Spirits: The Politics of Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott. 8. Raymond Aron Editor: A Political and Intellectual History of the "Liberté de l’esprit" Collection (1947-1983)  Part Four: Philosophy and History  9. Aron’s analysis of regimes: between Ancients and Moderns.  10. Raymond Aron and the Limits of Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences. 11. Hermeneutical Historicism and Interpretation in Aron’s Thought. 12. Aron’s Early Philosophy of History. 13. Philosophy of History and Industrial Civilization.  Part Five: Politics and Democracy  14. Aron’s Political Realism. 15. The Continuation of War: Towards a Theory of Political Action. 16. Elites and Power in Raymond Aron. 17. “American-style Orléanism”: Raymond Aron and the Question of Political Leadership in France. 18. Raymond Aron and the Theories of Democracy.  Part Six: International Relations  19. Raymond Aron: the Realism of Liberal Norms. 20. In Defense of “Decadent Europe” (International Relations).  Part Seven: Conclusion: What Have We Learned From Raymond Aron  21. When Chastened Liberalism Meets Democratic Conservatism: Raymond Aron’s Enduring Legacy

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Adair-Toteff is a philosopher and social theorist. He is the author of Reintroducing Raymond Aron and Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility and co-editor with Joachim Stark of The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron. His recent work focuses on early twentieth-century German legal theories, especially on Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen. Adair-Toteff is Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida.