The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century

In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the...
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The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century by Aron, Raymond

The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century

CHF 32.40

The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century

CHF 32.40
Author: Raymond Aron
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and the subsequent disintegration of her empires. With a richness of detail and sweeping breadth of historical examples, he chronicles and analyzes the history of the opposite ideological extremes of Fascism and Marxism and their descent into totalitarianism via secular religiosity. Aron also examines French imperialism through the examples of Algeria and Indochina, as well as America's role as an imperial republic during and after World War II. Aron was never orthodox in his ideology; neither his republican political penchants nor his dialectical intellectual orientation ever gained the upper hand over his devotion to empirical reality. The result here is an intellectual history that seems less concerned about where it falls on the political spectrum than about getting it right.

Author: Raymond Aron
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.66w x 1.32d
ISBN: 9780465004089

About the Author
One of the most important figures of French sociological commentary, Raymond Aron enjoyed a position of intellectual authority among his country's moderates and conservatives that rivaled Jean Paul Sartre's on the Left. His books include The Opium of the Intellectuals and Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. He died in 1983.

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