biography
| name: |
Aron, Raymond (-Claude-Ferdinand)
|
pronunciation:
[arõ]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1905–83)
|
| biography:
| Sociologist, philosopher, and political writer, born in Paris, France. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, later becoming professor of social philosophy at the University of Toulouse (1939) and of sociology at the Sorbonne (1955–68). He wrote for the leftist Combat (1946–7) and became a highly influential columnist for Le Figaro (1947–77). His works focused on problems of sociology and history in opposition to Marxist ideology, and in L'Opium des intellectuels (1955) he criticized Jean-Paul Sartre and the Marxists for their support of the Soviet Union. Opposed to colonialism, he advocated French withdrawal from Algeria before the Algerian Revolution, and was a leading critic of Charles de Gaulle. Among his other works are Sociologie Allemande Contemporaine (1936), Introduction à la Philosophie de l'histoire (1938), and Démocratie et Totalitarianisme (1965). His Mémoires appeared in 1983. |
|
|
