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The Other Intellectuals: Raymond Aron and the United States

Jenkins, Daniel Steinmetz

This dissertation seeks to offer the first extensive account of Raymond Aron's critical interactions with major US academics and intellectuals during the Cold War. In doing so it demonstrates that Aron regularly criticized the liberal ideology of his American Cold War allies using language remarkably similar to his much more famous critiques of French Marxism. It demonstrates this by looking at Aron's thinking on neoliberalism, theories of global development and international relations realism. It also offers an alternative interpretation of Aron's role in the so-called French liberal revival of the 1970s.

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Academic Units
History
Thesis Advisors
Moyn, Samuel
Degree
Ph.D., Columbia University
Published Here
September 15, 2016