The Opium Of The Intellectuals
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The Opium Of The Intellectuals
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Author : Raymond Aron
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Opium Of The Intellectuals written by Raymond Aron and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Political Science categories.
Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality-in all its mundane imperfections and tragic complexities.Aron explodes the three "myths" of radical thought: the Left, the Revolution, and the Proletariat. Each of these ideas, Aron shows, are ideological, mystifying rather than illuminating. He also provides a fascinating sociology of intellectual life and a powerful critique of historical determinism in the classically restrained prose for which he is justly famous.For this new edition, prepared by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson as part of Transaction's ongoing "Aron Project," political scientist Harvey Mansfield provides a luminous introduction that underscores the permanent relevance of Aron's work. The new edition also includes as an appendix "Fanaticism, Prudence, and Faith," a remarkable essay that Aron wrote to defend Opium from its critics and to explain further his view of the proper role of political thinking. The book will be of interest to all students of political theory, history, and sociology.
The Opium Of The Intellectuals Translated By Terence Kilmartin
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Author : Raymond Aron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Opium Of The Intellectuals Translated By Terence Kilmartin written by Raymond Aron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Intellectuals categories.
L Opium Des Intellectuels
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Author : Raymond Aron
language : fr
Publisher: Hachette
Release Date : 2002
L Opium Des Intellectuels written by Raymond Aron and has been published by Hachette this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Communism and intellectuals categories.
Au milieu des années cinquante, Raymond Aron prend vivement à partie les intellectuels compagnons de route du Parti communiste, notamment Sartre et le groupe des Temps modernes. Il analyse ici les raisons de leur aveuglement. Malgré la différence de contexte, ce livre est encore d'actualité, tant le message de cet ouvrage peut continuer à nourrir une éthique intellectuelle telle que les dernières lignes du livre la définissent: " Si la tolérance naît du doute, qu'on enseigne à douter des modèles et des utopies, à récuser les prophètes de salut, les annonciateurs de catastrophes. Appelons de nos vœux la venue des sceptiques s'ils doivent éteindre le fanatisme. " La préface de Nicolas Baverez présente le contexte dans lequel fut écrit ce classique de la pensée politique.
Raymond Aron And Liberal Thought In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Iain Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Raymond Aron And Liberal Thought In The Twentieth Century written by Iain Stewart and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with History categories.
The first historical account of Raymond Aron's role in the reconfiguration of liberal thought in the short twentieth century.
Imperial Twilight
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Author : Stephen R. Platt
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with History categories.
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Opium
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Author : Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-03
Opium written by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times.
The Opium War
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Author : Julia Lovell
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-09-02
The Opium War written by Julia Lovell and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-02 with History categories.
‘A gripping read as well as an important one.’ Rana Mitter, Guardian In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past hundred and seventy years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding episode of modern Chinese nationalism. Starting from this first conflict, The Opium War explores how China’s national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present, and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West. ‘Lively, erudite and meticulously researched’ Literary Review ‘An important reminder of how the memory of the Opium War continues to cast a dark shadow.’ Sunday Times
Memoirs
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Author : Raymond Aron
language : en
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Memoirs written by Raymond Aron and has been published by Holmes & Meier Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Aron reflects with simplicity and depth on industrial society, communism, the future of democracy, peace and war, the nuclear age, and also Charles de Gaulle, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux, Henry Kissinger and others.
Technology And Values
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Author : Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1997
Technology And Values written by Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools and case studies to facilitate understanding of the variety of issues emanating from the most significant developments in technology, including the effects on privacy of the widespread use of computers to store and retrieve personal information and the ethical considerations of genetic engineering.
Mastery Of Words And Swords
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Author : Jun Lei
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-03
Mastery Of Words And Swords written by Jun Lei and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-03 with History categories.
The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s–1930s, Jun Lei explores the formation and evolution of modern Chinese intellectual masculinities as constituted in racial, gender, and class discourses mediated by the West and Japan. This book brings to light a new area of interest in the “Man Question” within gender studies in which women have typically been the focus. To fully reveal the evolving masculine models of a “scholar-warrior,” this book employs an innovative methodology that combines theoretical vigor, archival research, and analysis of literary texts and visuals. Situating the changing inter- and intra-gender relations in modern Chinese history and Chinese literary and cultural modernism, the book engages critically with male subjectivity in relation to other pivotal issues such as semi-coloniality, psychoanalysis, modern love, feminism, and urbanization. “Jun Lei’s brilliant book offers a wealth of information and insights on how intellectuals such as Liang Qichao and Lu Xun shaped notions of Chinese masculinity in the tumultuous late Qing and May Fourth periods. Its account of how China’s interactions with the West and Japan impacted ideas of masculinity in modern times is compelling reading.” —Kam Louie, author of Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China and Chinese Masculinities in a Globalizing World “What are political and cultural consequences when a Chinese man looks and behaves like a woman? Jun Lei probes the psychic, intellectual, and nationalist underpinnings of that question. This provocative book offers an engaging story and insightful analyses about how male writers grappled with the effeminate look and strove to revitalize manliness.” —Ban Wan