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Raymond Aron did not write very much on Machiavelli. Moreover, he did not especially appreciate what he had written on that subject, as he confessed, 40 years later: “when the war came, I was working on…a study on Machiavelli, from which only about thirty pages survived. They are not worth much. The knowledge I had of Machiavelli was insufficient.”1 However, beyond a first text strictly focused on Machiavelli’s thought, the study that Aron mentions included three other essays, adding up to more than one hundred pages, focusing, on the whole, on what the author calls “modern Machiavellianism.” It would have been part of a book, as Aron says, that he intended to finish. Unfortunately, in 1940, when Germany occupied France and he went into exile in London, he gave up that project and published those pages, which eventually came to light only posthumously.2
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Raymond Aron, Mémoires. 50 ans de réflexion politique, Paris, Robert Laffont, 2003 [1983], 152.
Raymond Aron, Machiavel et les tyrannies modernes, ed. Rémy Freymond, Paris, Editions de Fallois, 1993.
Raymond Aron, Introduction à la philosophie politique: démocratie et révolution, Paris, Éditions de Fallois, 1997, 131.
See Serge Audier, Raymond Aron: la démocratie conflictuelle, Paris, Michalon, 2004, 44
Serge Audier, Machiavel, conflit et liberté, Paris, Vrin, 2005, 66.
Machiavelli, The Prince, 18, London, Penguin, 1981, 99.
“Le machiavélisme, doctrine des tyrannies modernes,” in Raymond Aron, Chroniques de Guerre: La France libre 1940–1945, Paris, Gallimard, 1990, 418.
“Machiavel et Marx,” in Raymond Aron, Études Politiques, Paris, Gallimard, 1972, 67.
Raymond Aron, La Sociologie allemande contemporaine, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1981–1989.
“Le machiavélisme, doctrine des tyrannies modernes,” in Raymond Aron, Chroniques de guerre: La France libre, 1940–1945, Paris, Gallimard, 1990, 419.
See Jacques Maritain, “The End of Machiavellianism,” Review of Politics, January 1942
Raymond Aron, “La querelle du machiavélisme,” in Raymond Aron, Machiavel et les tyrannies modernes, Paris, Éditions de Fallois, 1993, 367–378
Raymond Aron, “Sur le machiavélisme. Dialogue avec Jacques Maritain,” in Raymond Aron, Machiavel et les tyrannies modernes, Paris, Éditions de Fallois, 1993, 408–416.
Max Weber, Le savant et le politique, trad, française, Préface de R. Aron, Paris, Plon, 1963.
See Herman Heller, Europa und der Faschismus, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1929.
See James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. A Defence of Political Truth against Wishful Thinking, Washington, DC, Gateway Editions, 1943, a work for whose edition in France Aron was responsible.
Raymond Aron, Démocratie et totalitarisme, Paris, Gallimard, 1965, 53.
Claude Lefort, Écrire. À l’épreuve du politique, Paris, Calman-Lévy, 1992, 374–382.
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Aurélio, D.P. (2015). “Moderate Machiavellianism”: Aron, Machiavelli, and the Modern Machiavellians. In: Colen, J., Dutartre-Michaut, E. (eds) The Companion to Raymond Aron. Recovering Political Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-52243-6_18
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