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Title: The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond Aron, Harvey C. Mansfield, Daniel J. Mahoney, Brian C. Anderson ISBN: 0765807009 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A deserved classic...
Comment: The French intelligensia are fortunate in counting Aron a member - without him the term would be oxymoronic.
Rating: 5
Summary: a book for our time
Comment: Raymond Aron wrote this brilliant book as a devastating attack on intellectuals who were then much taken with communism, revolution and the proletariat. But it has, as he recognized, obvious relevance to the intellectual climate in the post Cold War world.
Consider, for example, this his profound insight that the intellectual "protests against police brutality, the inhuman rhythm of industrial production, the severity of bourgeois courts, the execution of prisoners whose guilt has not been proved beyond doubt.... But as soon as he decides to give his allegiance to a party which is implacably hostile as he is himself to the established order, we find him forgiving.. everything he has hitherto relentlessly denounced. The revolutionary myth bridges the gap between moral intransigence and terrorism."
Hence today's intellectuals no longer defend Stalin; they applaud Arafat. They do not question whether Western democratic values are superior to those of the USSR but whether Western values are superior to those of Mid-East and Africa. It is no longer fashionable to question whether the way we see communist countries is culturally apt; instead we question whether how we see terrorists is culturally apt. After all, should we not look for "root causes" of terrorism? That question is still asked. It's just that before 1989 intellectuals asked that question about communist terrorism; today they ask it about Mid-East terrorism.
The myth of the revolution has moved to a new continent and intellectuals, the Revolution's devotees, have a new Pope.
What a difference a few years make!
Rating: 5
Summary: French 'intellectualism' exposed as the hypocrisy it is...
Comment: Reading this book today drives home just how little the French 'intelligensia' have learnt in the past 50 years. They remain wedded to socialist theories that have killed millions while scoffing at the simple ideas that have made the United States the greatest power to roam the earth. In short, French attitudes to America are based on bilious envy...
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Title: The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century by Raymond Aron, Yair Reiner, Tony Judt, Barbara Bray ISBN: 0465004075 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics by Mark Lilla ISBN: 0940322765 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball ISBN: 1566634792 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism Int He Twentieth Century by Francois Furet, Deborah Furet ISBN: 0226273415 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik ISBN: 1893554457 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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