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The chastened liberal. (Books).(book about 20th-century history)
The short twentieth century, beginning with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in July 1914 and culminating in the collapse of communist totalitarianism in the annus mirabilis 1989, is now behind us even if its intellectual substance has not been adequately digested by our intellectual and political elites. The end of the cold war and the implosion of European communism even led some to proclaim "the end of history" as if the hyperbolic wars and totalitarian regimes of the century were mere parentheses, a disturbing if temporary blip in the forward march of humanity. Today, commentators too often oscillate between pessimistic despair and ...
- The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today January 1, 2000 700+ words
...The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1999...working classes. Judt's descriptioin of Raymond Aron's role as an important liberal journalist during...
- The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Lalande, J.-Guy December 1, 1999 700+ words
...Responsibility: Blum Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century, Tony Judt Chicago, Illinois...Peripheral Insider: Raymond Aron and the Wages of Reason...caracteristiques que Blum, Camus et Aron partagent en commun: leur honnetete...
- A Witness.(The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the...
- Magazine article from: National Review ANDERSON, BRIAN C. November 11, 2002 700+ words
...Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century, by Raymond Aron (Basic, 544 pp., $35) Jean...philosopher and social thinker Raymond Aron. In an amazingly productive...1930s until his death in 1983, Aron defended liberty and reason against...
- The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays From a Witness of the Twentieth...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Seaton, Paul November 1, 2002 700+ words
By RAYMOND ARON. Translated by Barbara...pp. $35. Raymond Aron (1905-1983), French...political analyst of the twentieth century. From an American standpoint...role in world affairs. Aron analyzes all of these...textured "history of the twentieth century" (the title of the...
- War, peace and the ideologies of the twentieth century.
- Magazine article from: Current Kurth, James May 1, 1999 700+ words
...political philosopher Raymond Aron once termed this the "century...connected. Indeed, the twentieth century's distinctive character...At the beginning of the twentieth century, Europe was home to the...at the beginning of the twentieth century was liberalism. In the...
- VDI Media Signs Long-Term Agreement with Twentieth Century Fox; Agreement...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 2, 1997 700+ words
...video service agreement with Twentieth Century Fox. The agreement is designed...stated, "We have been servicing Twentieth Century Fox for six years and this agreement...Associates Lillian Armstrong/Adam Aron, 415/433-3777 adam@lhai...
- The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Pekacz, Jolanta T. August 1, 2001 700+ words
...The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by Francois Furet. Translated...news for any serious student of twentieth-century history. And yet the book was...consciences?" -- asked Raymond Aron in The Opium of the Intellectuals...
- Reading Renaissance music theory: Hearing with the Eyes and Music Theory and...
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Sullivan, Blair March 22, 2002 700+ words
...Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...treatises of the Florentine theorist Pietro Aron and the printed collections of polyphonic...his Trattato (published in 1525), Aron, Judd argues, "accepts Petrucci...
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