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Title: Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection by Raymond Aron, George Holoch ISBN: 0841911142 Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: one of the least known great thinkers
Comment: Raymond Aron was unique among intellectuals: at once a journalist and scholar, he was a prolific writer on, and noted expert in, a huge aray of subjects from philosophy to military strategy to economics. As it turns out, his life was also fascinating: he was a classmate and best friends with Sartre before becoming his great adversary during the post war debates on Marxism, was in London for the French resistance during the war, and became a television personality late in life.
In French, Aron writes with a grace and clarity that are astonishing. Now I have finally read his memoires, one of the last things he wrote. When you compare any contemporary intellectual to him, they simply can't measure up.
Rating: 5
Summary: Patient but not condescending, honest, and breath-taking
Comment: Simply put, Rayomd Aron's memoir is proufound and interesting. Those who want to affect society in terms of knowledge should read this book. Aron just before his death tells us what intellectual ethics is, how unconscious intellectuals can be far from mass, and why we need philosohpy to understand society. Through the entire of the book, there is a specter of Sartre who used to be Aron's "little comarade" but turned out to be his ideological enemy. In contrast to a Sartre's monstrous genius who declined a Nobel prize, Aron commits himself as a humble humanutarian. This book is a critical review of the French intellectual history.
Rating: 5
Summary: a wonderful book
Comment: Raymond Aron is one of the most interesting intellectuals of this century. His writing is deeply appealing. He is not just telling the political history of the century he lived. The pages are like a wave that drifts from the right to the left inside the parties, from his childhood to poetry, passing through comunism, nazism, the wars, the fall of the ideologies, till reach the decade where the giant (USA) starts its fall - the seventies. He throws you into the political sense, into the racionality of the inteligentsias throughout Europe. It's not just about past, present and future. It's a different history. It's a guest for reason, it's a guest for the most challinging steps of man.
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Title: Peace & War: A Theory of International Relations by Raymond Aron, Daniel J. Mahoney, Brian C. Anderson ISBN: 0765805049 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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 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 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum ISBN: 1586481347 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World by Margaret Thatcher ISBN: 0060199733 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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