ENGLISH

Politics and History

By Raymond Aron

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1978
ISBN
9781351498494, 9780878559442
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
845 kB (864954 bytes)
Pages
313\0
Time added
2022-08-15 14:05:30

Description

Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science. This edition focuses on Aron's lifelong attempt to bridge the gap between knowledge and action and to understand the dialectical relationship between history and politics. It is an indispensable introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our century.This volume also contains an introduction by Aron, which presents an autobiographical account of his confrontation with many of the most important ideas of this century. Miriam Bernheim Conant provides perceptive commentary as well as a chronology of Aron's career and works.

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