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The Dawn Of Universal History

Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth Century

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By Raymond Aron

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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.

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On Sale
Jun 16, 2009
Page Count
554 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780786748563

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Raymond Aron

About the Author

Raymond Aron was the foremost political and social theorist of post–World War II France. Born in Paris in 1905, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure. He taught at the Sorbonne from 1955 to 1968, and also maintained a long commitment to journalism, first in Le Figaro then in L’Express. He died in 1983.

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