Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron (March 14, 1905 Paris, France - October 17, 1983 Paris, France) was a French philosopher and sociologist and political commentator. He is known for his skepticicism of French leftist ideology.

Table of contents

1 Biography 2 Sociological and political imporance 3 Works 4 External links

Biography

Son of a Jewish lawyer, in 1930, Aron received a doctorate in the philosophy of history from the École Normale Supérieure. In 1939, when World War II began, he was teaching social philosophy in at the University of Toulouse; he left the University and joined the air force. When France was defeated, he left for London to join the Free French forces and, from 1940-1944, edited their newspaper France Libre (Free France). At the close of the war, he returned to Paris to teach sociology at the École Nationale d'Administration. From 1955 to 1968, he taught at the Sorbonne, and after 1970 at the Collège de France. A lifelong journalist, he became a influential columinst for Le Figaro in 1947, a position he held for thirty years until he joined L'Express, where he wrote a political column up to his death.

Sociological and political imporance

Works

• Raymond Aron, Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations
• Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals (1955)
• Raymond Aron, Three Tests of the Industrial Age (1966)
• Raymond Aron, Stages of the sociological thought (1967)

External links

• http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9811/elshtain.html
• http://www.quotemeonit.com/aronr.html
• http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/may01/opium.htm