Title: Thinking politically
Subtitle: a liberal in the age of ideology
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Interviews, World politics, Journalists, Intellectuals, 20th century, Intellectual life, World politics, 20th century, Intellectuals, france, Liberalism, Politique mondiale, Journalistes, Entretiens, Intellectuels, Vie intellectuelle
Places: France
People: Raymond Aron (1905-1983)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: CT3990.A76 A76 1997