Obituary: Raymond Aron, 1905–1983 (1984)

Raymond Aron and the Politics of Understanding

Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. Translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. (CPW) Democracy and Totalitarianism: A Theory of Political Systems. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. (Dem) Les Dernieres Annees du Siecle. Paris: Julliard, 1983. (DA) Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society. Translated by M. K. Bottomore. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson...

Raymond Aron and the Intellectuals: Arguments Supportive of Libertarianism

“INTELLECTUALS . . . SEEK NEITHER TO understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p. 158) in a damning critique of those who were very much his intellectual kindred. Such a sentiment may at first seem surprising since Aron was, after all, a Marxist scholar and lifelong socialist who felt comfortable with the social welfare states prevalent in postwar ...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...