Word: arons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OPIUM OF THE INTELLECTUALS (324 pp.)-Raymond Aron-Doubleday...
French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman's head. Raymond Aron, brilliant political commentator and Sorbonne professor of philosophy, contends that this intellectual thingumbobbery makes French thinkers and their followers so outrageous and opinionated, so unable to get along with one another, that it is a wonder France exists...
Speaking in the last of his three lectures, Aron also applied "continuity" to French economics, attempting to dispell the "myth of decaying French economy." He felt the lack of a fast-growing industrial life was due to a stagnating population, and the traditional French policy of protection of agricultural interests...
...common European market agreement was not considered to be as valuable in France as in the United States, Aron said. The professor felt that it will be hard to combine Germany's strict economic control policies with the more lenient methods of the French. He expressed the hope that commercial disagreements will not disrupt Franco-German relations...
...Although Aron is in many ways skeptical of French policies, he strongly feels that "self-criticism is a form of national glorification...