Thinking politically
Subtitle: a liberal in the age of ideology
By: Raymond Aron ; part I translated from the French by James and Marie McIntosh ; with a new introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson.
Contributors: Aron, Raymond, 1905-
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Aron, Raymond, 1905- -- Interviews; World politics -- 20th century; Journalists -- France -- Interviews; Intellectuals -- France -- Interviews; France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Aron that form a political history of our time. Ranging over an entire lifetime, from his youthful experience with the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin to the denouement of the cold war, Aron meditates on the threats to liberty and reason in the bloody twentieth century.

In addition to the interviews published in the original edition, Thinking Politically incorporates three interviews never before published in book form. This supplemental material clarifies Aron's role as a voice of prudential reason in an unreasonable age and allows unparalleled access to the principal influences on Aron's thought.

The volume concludes with "Democratic States and Totalitarian States," an address by Aron to the French Philosophical Society as well as the accompanying debate with Jacques Maritain, Victor Basch, and other intellectuals.
Notes: Includes The committed observer (a translation of Le spectateur engagé), published in 1983, along with additional interviews with Raymond Aron, and an address he delivered to the French Philosophic Society, June 17, 1939.