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A Witness.(The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century)(Book Review)
The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century, by Raymond Aron (Basic, 544 pp., $35)
Jean-Paul Sartre's apologias for Stalin and Mao; Michel Foucault's praise for Iran's Islamic revolutionaries; the recent Parisian bestseller that claimed September 11 was an elaborate right-wing hoax- all too often, France's intellectual life has shown contempt for the hard-won decencies of liberal democracy and become infatuated with madness and tyranny. Yet one giant of 20th-century French thought always stood rocklike against the nonsense that swirled around him: the philosopher and social thinker Raymond Aron.
In an amazingly ...
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