TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott B. Nelson
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631786451
TI  - Tragedy and History
T2  - The German Influence on Raymond Aron’s Political Thought
DO  - 10.3726/b15494
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057719
N2  - This work examines the cohesion of Raymond Aron’s political thought and argues that its unifying principles are to be found in certain intellectual problems he came upon early in life through his study of German thought. These problems consist of the relation between man and history, knowledge and action, and philosophy and politics. They are explored in three intertwined facets of Aron’s thought – History, Sociology, and Praxeology – which are elaborated by setting Aron in dialogue with three key German thinkers: Dilthey, Marx, and Weber respectively. This work argues that the roots of Aron’s political thought reach back to the 1930s and that his ongoing meditation on the philosophical problems raised at that time endure and provide the framework for his thought for the rest of his life.
KW  - philosophy of history, political ethics, French intellectual, industrial society, liberal democracy, 20th century Europe
LA  - English
ER  -