Raymond Aron (1905–1983)

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1. Raymond Aron

   Author of The Opium of the Intellectuals, Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations, History and the Dialectic of Violence: An Analysis of Sartre's Critique De Raison Dialectique

2. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History, Personal Impressions, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

3. Leo Strauss

   Author of Natural Right and History, Thoughts on Machiavelli, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss

4. Marcel Gauchet

   Author of The Disenchantment of the World, La Démocratie contre elle-même, La Condition historique

5. Peter L. Berger

   Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective, Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change

6. Leszek Kolakowski

   Author of Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 1: The Founders, Modernity on Endless Trial, Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 3: The Breakdown

7. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, An Essay on Liberation, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

8. Max Weber

   Author of From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, The Vocation Lectures: Science As a Vocation, Politics As a Vocation, Economie et société, tome 1 : Les Catégories de la sociologie

9. Robert A. Nisbet

   Author of History of the Idea of Progress, The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (ICS Series in Self-Governance), Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary

10. Michael Eliot Howard

    Author of War in European History, The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order, The Causes of War, Revised and Enlarged Edition

11. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Political Romanticism

12. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of The Myth of the State, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language

13. François Furet

    Author of Revolutionary France 1770-1880 (History of France), The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century

14. George Lichtheim

    Author of Marxism: A Historical and Critical Study, Marxism in Modern France

15. Peter Paret

    Author of Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, Clausewitz and the State

16. Karl Marx

    Author of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx Selected Writings In Sociology and Social Philosophy, Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850 (New World Paperbacks)

17. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Theory and Practice, Technik und Wissenschaft als Ideologie

18. Jean-François Revel

    Author of Anti-Americanism, Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun, La Grande Parade: Essai sur la survie de l'utopie socialiste

19. Émile Durkheim

    Author of The Division of Labor in Society, Rules of Sociological Method

20. Pierre Bourdieu

    Author of On Television, Questions de sociologie, Science of Science and Reflexivity