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1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook on Raymond Aron

Edited By Christopher Adair-Toteff Copyright 2027

332 Pages

by Routledge

Description

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... Read more

Table of Contents

Part One: Introduction

1. Introduction: Who was Raymond Aron?

Christopher Adair-Toteff

Part Two: Sociology and Sociological Ideas

2. What Did Sociology Mean to Raymond Aron?

Alan Sica

3. Raymond Aron’s Understanding of Modernity.

Wolfgang Knöbl

4. Grandes Doctrines, Main Currents, Étapes?: Origins and Meanings of Aron’s Concept of Stages in Sociological Thought

Joachim Stark

Part Three: People and Work

5. Carl Schmitt and Raymond Aron on Freedom.

Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

6. The Measured Rebel and the Committed Observer: Aron and Camus

Joshua L. Cherniss

7. Not Quite Kindred Spirits: The Politics of Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott.

Vicente Pozo

8. Raymond Aron Editor: A Political and Intellectual History of the "Liberté de l’esprit" Collection (1947-1983)

Gwendal Châton

Part Four: Philosophy and History

9. Aron’s analysis of regimes: between Ancients and Moderns

Alexis Carré

10. Raymond Aron and the Limits of Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences.

Christian Robitaille

11. Hermeneutical Historicism and Interpretation in Aron’s Thought.

Sophie Marcotte Chenard

12. Aron’s Early Philosophy of History.

Christopher Adair-Toteff

13. Philosophy of History and Industrial Civilization.

Daniel Tanguay

Part Five: Politics and Democracy

14. Aron’s Political Realism.

Agostino Carrino

15. The Continuation of War: Towards a Theory of Political Action.

Scott B. Nelson

16. Elites and Power in Raymond Aron.

Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe

17. “American-style Orléanism”: Raymond Aron and the Question of Political Leadership in France.

Matthias Oppermann

18. Raymond Aron and the Theories of Democracy.

José Colen

Part Six: International Relations

19. Raymond Aron: the Realism of Liberal Norms.

Olivier Schmitt

20. In Defense of “Decadent Europe” (International Relations).

Joël Mouric

Part Seven: Conclusion: What Have We Learned From Raymond Aron

21. When Chastened Liberalism Meets Democratic Conservatism: Raymond Aron’s Enduring Legacy

Daniel J. Mahoney

Editor(s)

Biography

Christopher Adair-Toteff is a philosopher and social theorist. He is the author of Reintroducing Raymond Aron, 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.

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