Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary history the insights of both philosophy and social science

I: History and Society; 1: The Philosophy of History; 2: Thucydides and the Historical Narrative; 3: Three Forms of Historical Intelligibility; 4: On the Historical Condition of the Sociologist 1; II: History and Politics; 5: Machiavelli and Marx 1; 6: Macht Power, Puissance: Democratic Prose or Demoniac Poetry?; 7: Sociology and the Philosophy of Human Rights; 8: The Liberal Definition of Freedom; 9: What Is a Theory of International Relations?; 10: The Evolution of Modern Strategic Thought (1945-1968); 11: The Dawn of Universal History 1; III: Conclusion; 12: History and Politics; 13: The Social Responsibility of the Philosopher; Chronology of Raymond Aron's Academic Career