Routledge International Handbook on Raymond Aron

Christopher Adair-Toteff is a philosopher and social theorist. He is the author of Reintroducing Raymond Aron and Raymond Aron’s Philosophy of Political Responsibility and co-editor with Joachim Stark of The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron. His recent work focuses on early twentieth-century German legal theories, especially on Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen. Adair-Toteff is Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida.

• Part One: Introduction 1. Introduction: Who was Raymond Aron? Part Two: Sociology and Sociological Ideas 2. What Did Sociology Mean to Raymond Aron? 3. Raymond Aron’s Understanding of Modernity. 4. Grandes Doctrines, Main Currents, Étapes?: Origins and Meanings of Aron’s Concept of Stages in Sociological Thought Part Three: People and Work 5. Carl Schmitt and Raymond Aron on Freedom. 6. The Measured Rebel and the Committed Observer: Aron and Camus 7. Not Quite Kindred Spirits: The Politics of Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott. 8. Raymond Aron Editor: A Political and Intellectual History of the "Liberté de l’esprit" Collection (1947-1983) Part Four: Philosophy and History 9. Aron’s analysis of regimes: between Ancients and Moderns. 10. Raymond Aron and the Limits of Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences. 11. Hermeneutical Historicism and Interpretation in Aron’s Thought. 12. Aron’s Early Philosophy of History. 13. Philosophy of History and Industrial Civilization. Part Five: Politics and Democracy 14. Aron’s Political Realism. 15. The Continuation of War: Towards a Theory of Political Action. 16. Elites and Power in Raymond Aron. 17. “American-style Orléanism”: Raymond Aron and the Question of Political Leadership in France. 18. Raymond Aron and the Theories of Democracy. Part Six: International Relations 19. Raymond Aron: the Realism of Liberal Norms. 20. In Defense of “Decadent Europe” (International Relations). Part Seven: Conclusion: What Have We Learned From Raymond Aron 21. When Chastened Liberalism Meets Democratic Conservatism: Raymond Aron’s Enduring Legacy