scholarly journals Iain STEWART, Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 339-342
Author(s):  
Henri-Pierre Mottironi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
Liberal Thought

Aron’s legacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-175
Author(s):  
Christopher Adair-Toteff
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Raymond Aron

When Raymond Aron died suddenly in October of 1983, there was an outpouring of grief and praise. Aron was highly regarded by philosophers, sociologists, political thinkers, and many others in a variety of disciplines. Newspapers and journals were filled with his obituaries and most of the authors lauded Aron for his work. Even allowing for some hyperbole, it was understood that the world had lost a great thinker. Since then, Aron’s reputation has suffered to some degree; however, there have been a number of scholars who have written about him and their estimation of Aron is understandably high. Finally, there have been a few additions to the literature on Aron, and those indicate a further resurgence of interest in his thinking. Aron was one of the leading sociologists and political philosophers of the twentieth century; his legacy deserves to live on and his writings deserve to be read.

Subjectivity and Transcendence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Wahl
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unpublished Letter ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
The One

Featuring replies and letters by Raymond Aron, Nikolai Berdyaev, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Emmanuel Levinas, Gabriel Marcel, and many others, Wahl’s 1937 “Subjectivity and Transcendence” should be included among the most important debates in twentieth-century European philosophy. It is essential for understanding the secularization of Kierkegaard, and it provided a crucial forum in which to discuss and shape the future of existentialism. While revealing Jaspers’s and Heidegger’s debt to Kierkegaard, Wahl at the same time worries that any attempt to provide a philosophy of the insights that stem from Kierkegaard’s life would threaten either to fall into abstraction or to harbor implicit theological presuppositions. He also sets the stage for dialogue about the nature of transcendence by developing the concepts of “transascendence” and “transdescendence.” This chapter concludes with a previously unpublished letter Wahl wrote to Heidegger in which he provides a more detailed response to Heidegger’s contribution to the debate than the one given in “Subjectivity and Transcendence.”

Reinhold Niebuhr and the Emergence of the Liberal Realist Faith, 1930–1945

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Liberal Thought

In the development of American liberal thought in the twentieth century Reinhold Niebuhr occupies a central, but only partially examined, place. Numerous writers have noted that his active forty-year career followed a pattern typical of many other American intellectuals in the middle third of the century. From a rejection of liberalism and an attachment to Marxism in the thirties, he emerged in the postwar period with a renascent liberal faith, which in the fifties assumed an increasingly rigid, anticommunist cast.

Tocqueville, Burke, and the Origins of Liberal Conservatism

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford Lakoff
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Michael Oakeshott ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
Tyranny Of The Majority

Alexis de Tocqueville is not easily characterized as either a liberal or a conservative. In this respect he resembles Edmund Burke. Both may be best understood as “liberal conservatives”—figures who straddled both camps. On a number of specific dimensions, including their attitudes toward aristocracy, colonialism, property, rationalism, the tyranny of the majority, pluralism, and the meaning of history, they are remarkably similar. Their thinking foreshadows the rapprochement between liberals and conservatives in the latter half of the twentieth century reflected in the prominence of right-of-center parties and leaders and in the work of such political thinkers as Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott.

scholarly journals Raymond Aron y José Ortega y Gasset: dos vidas paralelas en defensa del liberalismo

2019 ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Pedro Carlos González Cuevas
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Sobre Todo ◽  
Liberal Thought

Francia y España han sido dos sociedades muy diferentes. No obstante, hubieron de enfrentarse a una problemática análoga, sobre todo en los años treinta y en el periodo de la guerra fría, como era la de la crisis del sistema liberal. José Ortega y Gasset y Raymond Aron están unidos en su perspectiva de renovación del pensamiento liberal frente a las fuerzas políticas e intelectuales que lo pusieron en cuestión. Ambos defendieron una variedad de liberalismo que el sociólogo italiano Carlo Gambescia ha denominado “liberalismo árquico”, basado en el historicismo y el realismo político.France and Spain were two very different societies. Nevertheless, they had to face a similar problem especially in the 1930’s and during the period of the cold war, as it was the crisis of the liberalism system. José Ortega y Gasset and Raymond Aron are united in their perspective of renewal of liberal thought in front of the political forces and intellectuals who put in question. Both defended a variety of liberalism that the italian sociologist Carlo Gambescia has been called “liberalism archic”, based on the historicism and political realism.

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