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Frequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, Raymond Aron left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics, both scholarly and popular. While trained in philosophy, Aron nevertheless left his mark on such fields as economics, sociology, nuclear strategic thought, and international relations. A Politics of Understanding assesses the originality and consistency in Aron's corpus, especially in the areas of international relations theory and strategic thought, and provides a concise and clearly written explanation of the basic concepts at work in Aron's philosophy.

Introduction 1. - 1. "To grasp truth and reality": Max Weber, Edmund Husserl, and the philosophy of history 27. - 2. "That cool distiller of passion and interest": Sociology and the meaning of industrial society 58. - 3. Peace and war: The descent to theory 85. - 4. Clausewitz and the art of war 134. - 5. Critical confrontation 165