The Dawn Of Universal History: Selected Essays From A Witness To The Twentieth CenturyBasic Books, 16/06/2009 - 554 páginas In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and the subsequent disintegration of her empires. With a richness of detail and sweeping breadth of historical examples, he chronicles and analyzes the history of the opposite ideological extremes of Fascism and Marxism and their descent into totalitarianism via secular religiosity. Aron also examines French imperialism through the examples of Algeria and Indochina, as well as America's role as an "imperial republic" during and after World War II. Aron was never orthodox in his ideology; neither his republican political penchants nor his dialectical intellectual orientation ever gained the upper hand over his devotion to empirical reality. The result here is an intellectual history that seems less concerned about where it falls on the political spectrum than about getting it right. |
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... side - shadowed by this fact . But his obsession with the Soviet threat was driven above all by his in- sight into the attraction of communism , which gave the USSR an appeal and a leverage far beyond that of a conventional Great Power ...
... side - shadowed by this fact . But his obsession with the Soviet threat was driven above all by his in- sight into the attraction of communism , which gave the USSR an appeal and a leverage far beyond that of a conventional Great Power ...
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... side . His situation - that of a Frenchman better understood and more appreciated abroad than at home - reminded him of the discomforts of the tradition in which he had chosen to place him- self . In Alexis de Tocqueville's isolation ...
... side . His situation - that of a Frenchman better understood and more appreciated abroad than at home - reminded him of the discomforts of the tradition in which he had chosen to place him- self . In Alexis de Tocqueville's isolation ...
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... side or the other . For all his vigorous anticommunism , Aron was strikingly moderate , not unlike George Kennan in later years . He believed that the Soviet Union would never deliberately push the world to the brink of war but instead ...
... side or the other . For all his vigorous anticommunism , Aron was strikingly moderate , not unlike George Kennan in later years . He believed that the Soviet Union would never deliberately push the world to the brink of war but instead ...
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... side and then another , who is all the more unbearable because he takes his moderation to excess and hides his passions under his arguments . " 23 But his commitment was unmistakable and the passion real . To read Aron now is to be ...
... side and then another , who is all the more unbearable because he takes his moderation to excess and hides his passions under his arguments . " 23 But his commitment was unmistakable and the passion real . To read Aron now is to be ...
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... side talks of the breakup of empires , the other of the liberation of nations . But verbal differences should not pre- vent us from agreeing on essential facts . Perhaps , in the future , American , Russian , Chinese , and Indian ...
... side talks of the breakup of empires , the other of the liberation of nations . But verbal differences should not pre- vent us from agreeing on essential facts . Perhaps , in the future , American , Russian , Chinese , and Indian ...
Índice
The Technological Surprise | 69 |
The Dynamic of Total War | 91 |
Democratic and Totalitarian States | 163 |
The Future of Secular Religions | 177 |
From Marxism to Stalinism | 203 |
The Expansion of Stalinism | 225 |
The IslandContinent | 245 |
The United States and the International System | 263 |
What Empires Cost and What Profits They Bring | 407 |
Indochina | 419 |
Algeria and the Republic | 453 |
Endnotes | 487 |
Provenance of the Texts | 502 |
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Africa Algeria alliance Allies American army Aron's Asia Bolshevik bombing Britain British capitalism capitalist China Chinese civilization Cold War colonial communism Communist Communist Party conflict conquest countries crisis defeat democracies democratic diplomacy diplomatic policy doctrine domination Eastern Europe economic Empire enemy European fact favor fighting force foreign France France's French Gaulle Germany Hitler hostilities idea ideology imperialism independence Indochina industrial inevitable Japan Kennedy Korea Kremlin Le Figaro leaders liberal Marxist masses means ment military million missiles moral Morocco Moscow nationalist negotiations Nixon North North Vietnam nuclear Paris peace Peking Poland political population possible president propaganda public opinion Raymond Aron Republic revolution revolutionary Roosevelt rule Russia secular religions seems social socialist society sovereignty Soviet Union Stalin territories Third Reich tion tional totalitarian traditional treaty Truman Tunisia twentieth century United victory Vietminh Vietnam Vietnamese wanted wars West Western World War II zone
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Página 252 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Página 252 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página 251 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Página 251 - I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. "Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Página 387 - the only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitor that the danger of war arises. So I believe in a world in which the United States is powerful. I think it would be a safer world and a better world if we have a strong, healthy United States, Europe, Soviet Union, China and Japan, each balancing the other, not playing one against...
Página 248 - ... days of the war already begun did any state deliberately propose to reconsider its action in the matter. The hand once put to the plough, there was no turning back. As Judge Drayton of South Carolina said from the bench, " A decree is now gone forth not to be recalled, and thus has suddenly risen in the world a new empire, styled the United States of America.
Página 387 - We must remember the only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitor that the danger of war arises.
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