PART ONE POLITICAL MYTHS CHAPTER I. THE MYTH OF THE LEFT CHAPTER II. THE MYTH OF THE REVOLUTION CHAPTER III. THE MYTH OF THE PROLETARIAT PART TWO THE IDOLATRY OF HISTORY CHAPTER IV. CHURCHMEN AND THE FAITHFUL CHAPTER VI. THE ILLUSION OF NECESSITY PART THREE THE ALIENATION OF THE INTELLECTUALS CHAPTER VII. THE INTELLECTUALS AND THEIR HOMELAND CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLECTUALS AND THEIR IDEOLOGIES CHAPTER IX. THE INTELLECTUALS IN SEARCH OF A RELIGION, CONCLUSION THE END OF THE IDEOLOGICAL AGE?
Raymond Aron (1905-1983) was the foremost political and social theorist of post-World War II France known for his skeptical analyses of leftist ideologies. was well known in both the United States and United Kingdom, serving as Andrew D. White Professor-At-Large at Cornell University. He also taught at Columbia and Oxford. He authored more than forty books, including Main Currents in Sociological Thought, The Opium of the Intellectuals, and The Imperial Republic, all published in new editions by Transaction.
-Raymond Aron's analysis of French intellectual culture of the
1940s and 1950s retains its relevance inot the 21st century,
helping to illuminate the minds of intellectuals so that we can
understand their penchant for irrational utopianism. Althought the
particular controversies have changed somewhat, our modern
intellectuals partake of the same opium.- - Ideas on Liberty
"Raymond Aron's analysis of French intellectual culture of the
1940s and 1950s retains its relevance inot the 21st century,
helping to illuminate the minds of intellectuals so that we can
understand their penchant for irrational utopianism. Althought the
particular controversies have changed somewhat, our modern
intellectuals partake of the same opium." - Ideas on Liberty
"Raymond Aron's analysis of French intellectual culture of the
1940s and 1950s retains its relevance inot the 21st century,
helping to illuminate the minds of intellectuals so that we can
understand their penchant for irrational utopianism. Althought the
particular controversies have changed somewhat, our modern
intellectuals partake of the same opium." - "Ideas on Liberty"
"Raymond Aron's analysis of French intellectual culture of the
1940s and 1950s retains its relevance inot the 21st century,
helping to illuminate the minds of intellectuals so that we can
understand their penchant for irrational utopianism. Althought the
particular controversies have changed somewhat, our modern
intellectuals partake of the same opium."- "Ideas on Liberty"
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