French History @IHR: Iain Stewart on Raymond Aron and the Liberal Retreat from Empire
Date and Place: Monday 10th February 2020 in the Chadwick Building, UCL Speaker: Iain Stewart (UCL) Paper Title: Rethinking Raymond Aron on Decolonization and the End of Ideology Chair: Andrew WM Smith To listen to a recording of this paper please click here (right click to save) In this paper Iain Stewart built on a […]
Rethinking the ‘French Liberal Revival’
In this second post in a series of reflections on the New Directions in French History Conference in London in September Dr. Iain Stewart (UCL), explores the significance of the French liberal revival. On 17 October 1983 the French philosopher, sociologist and political commentator Raymond Aron collapsed and died as he was leaving a Parisian […]