Robert Aron
| Robert Aron | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 25, 1898 Le Vésinet, France |
| Died | April 19, 1975 (aged 76) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Lycée Condorcet |
Robert Aron (1898–1975) was a French historian and writer who authored a number of books on politics and European history.
Robert Aron was born in Le Vésinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern France. He attended the Lycée Condorcet and served in the French Army during World War I. He was wounded in action in 1918.
Receiving a degree in literature after the war, he joined the Éditions Gallimard publishing house where he was briefly secretary to Gaston Gallimard. He also worked as a film critic for the magazine La Revue du Cinéma, and wrote about politics in the foreign service for the Revue des Deux Mondes. His interest in post-war avant-garde literature and art and its most modern and provocative expressions was the impetus behind the creation, together with Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry.
Although he was somewhat disappointed by his early experiences, his life took a new turn as he became reacquainted with a fellow, former student of the Lycée Condorcet, Arnaud Dandieu, in 1927. Their work together in political and philosophical research spawned three works in the early 1930s: Décadence de la Nation Française (1931), Le Cancer Américain (1931) and La Révolution Nécessaire (1933). These works constituted the principal theoretical base on which he created the group l'Ordre Nouveau (The New Order) in 1930, which with Esprit represented one of the most original expressions of the Nonconformist Movement during the 1930s. Closely collaborating with Dandieu until his death in 1933, Aron took a very active part in all of the activities of l'Ordre Nouveau until its end in 1938. Thereafter, Aron's activities and viewpoints would be influenced by these experiences.
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