The philosopher in history, 1905-1955

Author(s)

• Colquhoun, Robert

Bibliographic Information

The philosopher in history, 1905-1955

Robert Colquhoun

（Raymond Aron / Robert Colquhoun, v. 1）

Sage Publications, c1986

Note

Bibliography: p. [501]-525

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The only book on Raymond Aron in English, Robert Colquhoun's brilliant biography is an intellectual and literary tour de force. The first volume, The Philosopher in History, 1905-55, is examines the development of his philosophical stance in the turbulent years before the Second World War. It explores his opposition to Fascism and Communism and his achievement as a journalist and polemicist in the first decade of the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: YOUTH: 1905-1930 Schooldays The Ecole Normale Sup>erieure PART TWO: THE 1930s Germany, 1930-1933 France, 1933-1939 Max Weber and German Sociology The Philosophy of History Marxism, Ideology and the Social Sciences Liberalism and Totalitarianism PART THREE: THE WAR YEARS La France Libre Chronique de France Man Against the Tyrants The Renovation of France PART FOUR: THE COLD WAR The Journalist The Rassemblement du Peuple Francais The Break with Sartre The Great Schism The Wars of the Twentieth Century The Future of Europe France and the Empire The Opium of the Intellectuals

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Details

• NCID: BA00277700
• ISBN:
  • 0803997396
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 540 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : CT3990.A76
  • DC19 : 194
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aron, Raymon, 1905-
  • LCSH : Philosophers --France -- Biography
  • LCSH : Socialists -- France -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00277766