Raymond Aron on the End of the History of International Relations

Frost, Bryan-Paul

doi:10.3200/ppsc.35.2.75-82

Perspectives on Political Science

2006

DOI: 10.3200/ppsc.35.2.75-82

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Raymond Aron on the End of the History of International Relations

Bryan-Paul Frost

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“… 8. And Anglo-American liberal or liberal conservative ones: see, notably, Anderson (1995), Anderson and Mahoney (1997), Davis (2009), Frost (1997, 2006), Jennings (2003, and the essays that follow in that journal issue), Judt (2007, 2011), and Mahoney (1992, 2011). Stanley Hoffmann has also written voluminously on Aron. …”

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Raymond Aron (1905–1983) assumed many guises over a long and fruitful career: journalist, polemicist, philosopher of history, counselor to political leaders and officials, theorist of nuclear deterrence and international relations. He was also France’s most notable sociologist. While Aron had especially close ties with Britain, a result of his days in active exile there during the Second World War, he was widely appreciated in the United States too. His book Main Currents in Sociological Thought was hailed a masterpiece; more generally, Aron’s books were extensively reviewed in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review (in earlier days, it hosted a review section), Contemporary Sociology, and Social Forces. And he was admired and cited by sociologists of the stature of Daniel Bell, Edward Shils, and David Riesman. Yet despite appearing well poised to become a major force in international sociology, analogous to his younger collaborator, Pierre Bourdieu, Aron has almost vanished from the sociological landscape. This article explains why, offering in the process some observations on the conditions—conceptual and motivational—of reputational longevity in sociological theory and showing how Aron failed to meet them. Special attention is devoted to a confusing equivocation in Aron’s description of sociology and to the cultural basis of his ambivalence toward the discipline.

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