The opium of the intellectuals / Raymond Aron ; with a new introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield ; for...
The opium of the intellectuals / Raymond Aron ; with a new introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield ; for...
The opium of the intellectuals / Raymond Aron ; with a new introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield ; foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson.
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, c2001.
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N305.552/ 9
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English
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xxiv, 358 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Political Myths -- Ch. I. The Myth of the Left -- Ch. II. The Myth of the Revolution -- Ch. III. The Myth of the Proletariat -- Concerning Political Optimism -- Pt. 2. The Idolatry of History -- Ch. IV. Churchmen and the Faithful -- Ch. V. The Meaning of History -- Ch. VI. The Illusion of Nec...
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, c2001.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2001.
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"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 mu...
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The opium of the intellectuals / Raymond Aron ; with a new introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield ; foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2001.
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0130123811 (pbk.) :
9780765807007 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0765807009 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780130123817 (pbk.) :
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305.552
005.7585
305.5520944
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991012809599702626
