A teoria da história de Raymond Aron para além do Reno: "Découverte de l'Allemagne"

Abstract

Abstract: The work is subsumed on the objective of examining the theory of history developed by Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983), accounted primarily in relation to its connection with german thought. The process of constitution of his theoretical-epistemological, as well as political thought was deeply marked by the strenuous presence of german philosophical conceptions, whose fruitful dialogue took place, especially, during the decade of 1930, which resulted in the conception of his doctoral thesis, namely, Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire: Essai sur les limits de l'objectivité Historique. The defense of this thesis is the representation of a process marked by the struggle not only of generations, but also of different systems of thought. The question of this work is, in this sense, precisely the critical analysis of the "appropriation" presented by the work of Aron, from the confrontation of the works he carried out in the 1930s with the tradition of which he is considered to belong and, finally, to prescribe its specificity. This discussion is embedded in a larger context which deals with the reception of german philosophical and sociological thought in France. Aron was from his formation linked to german philosophy, initially to Kant and, later, to phenomenology, marxism, to the philosophy of W. Dilthey, as well as to the Neo-Kantianism of the Baden School, and especially to Max Weber. This period is decisive for the constitution of his theory of history or, in Aron's terms, of his "critical philosophy of history", based on the "critique of historical reason". A theory distinguished mainly by the search of the limits of historical objectivity and by an ontological-existential perspective.