Stark / Adair-Toteff The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-83998-005-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Reihe: Anthem Companions to Sociology

Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social ramifications of its day-to-day life. Aron experts from a total of seven countries examine Aron’s sociology in detail starting with his road from philosophy to sociology not least under the impression of the Great Depression and its aftermath, especially the rise of National Socialism in Germany. His epistemological studies on the limits of objective knowledge in history and the social sciences in which he moves away from Durkheim's approach and instead adopts Max Weber's sociology of understanding are analysed. This acknowledgment of the limits of knowledge laid the foundations for Aron’s liberalism and humanism. His sociology of industrial society as an economy of economic growth in its market economy and planned economy versions, its social stratification, his criticism of the Marxist concept of social class, the structure of the ruling elites and the pluralistic and one-party, totalitarian political regimes are presented, as is Aron's analysis of the dialectic of modern society between the idea of equality and the authority structures in the state and the economic process. This is accompanied by Aron's lifelong criticism of those intellectuals above all in the pluralist and liberal democracies who hope that a messianic ideology will abolish all social contradictions. Aron’s sociology of international relations in the age of industrial society and globalization, which for Aron brought about the dawn of universal history, complete the overview of Raymond Aron's sociological work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stark, Joachim

Adair-Toteff, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Retracing Aron’s Routes to Sociology, Joachim Stark; Chapter One The Subject, Pluralism and Équité: Raymond Aron and Sociology, Joachim Stark; Chapter Two Aron, Weber and Nationalism, Christopher Adair-Toteff; Chapter Three Equivocal and Inexhaustible: Aron, Marx and Marxism, Scott B. Nelson; Chapter Four The Opium of the Intellectuals, Leslie Marsh and Nathan Cockram; Chapter Five A New Era in the Human Adventure: Industrial Society and Economic Growth, Scott B. Nelson and Joachim Stark; Chapter Six Raymond Aron: La lutte de classes, Alessandro Campi; Chapter Seven Political Philosophy Meets Political Sociology: Raymond Aron on Democracy and Totalitarianism, Daniel J. Mahoney; Chapter Eight The Contradictions of Prometheus: Wisdom and Action after the Disillusionment of Progress, Giulio De Ligio; Chapter Nine The International Problem and the Question of the Best Political Regime, Frédéric Cohen; Chapter Ten War and Irrationality: Aron and Pareto, Alan Sica; Conclusion: Aron on Liberty, Christopher Adair-Toteff; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Joachim Stark is a sociologist, political scientist and art historian. He has published books and numerous articles in scientific journals on Raymond Aron. Christopher Adair-Toteff is a philosopher and social theorist. His recent book includes Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility (2019).