Ronald Aronson
Distinguished Professor of the
History of Ideas
Department of History
Contact Information:
Email:
ronald.aronson@wayne.edu
Phone: 313/577-0828 Fax: 313/577-8585
Wayne State University
College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of History (eff.
January 2008)
3155
Faculty/Administration Building (FAB)
Interdisciplinary Studies Program
2426 Academic/Administrative Building
(AAB)
5700 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202
◄NEW► "For
the powerless": Review of Jonathan Judaken's
Jean-Paul Sartre
and the
Jewish Question
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT -
October 26, 2007
No. 5456
The Detroit News
Opinion
(Wednesday, September 05, 2007):
"Cutting program
undermines Wayne State's urban mission"
"THE NEW
ATHEISTS"
Cover, The Nation,
June 25, 2007/posted
June 7, 2007
"Exchange:
Amen to All That - Our Readers and Ronald
Aronson" (The
Nation, Dec 17, 2007; posted Nov 28, 2007)
Biography
Curriculum Vitae, including complete list of publications
Recent and upcoming courses:
Previous years' syllabi and
course information
Discussion and Interviews:
- "Is
Atheism Just a Rant Against Religion?" (Washington Post, May 26,
2007)
- "Sartre." Audio. Panel
also including Denis Hollier and Hazel Rowley. (MLA/Modern Language
Association, 2005 program #198)
- "Sartre."
Audio. Panel also including François George Maugarlone, Michel-Antoine Burnier,
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota. (Radio France, broadcast 4 April, 2005.
- "Camus,
Sartre, and Us: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It".
An Interview with Ron Aronson with Danny Postel. (Logos, Winter,
2005). (See also
DIreland, "Sartre and the Question of Politically Engaged Intellectuals.)
- "The Return of Jean-Paul Sartre."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Colloquy, Live. (November 2003). [Also see "Sartre
Redux" by Scott McLemee, The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-21-03.]
- "The Third Man in the Story. Ronald Aronson discusses the Sartre-Camus
Conflict with Francis Jeanson." (Sartre Studies International, Volume 8,
Issue 2, 2002)
- "Sartre and Terror" (transcript). (North American Sartre Society
"The New Orleans Sessions,"
Loyola University, March 2002)
Selected writings:
"LIVING WITHOUT GOD" project
- "Thank
Who Very Much? Gratitude in a Godless World". (TPM/The Philosphers'
Magazine Online, July 27, 2006)
- "Finding
Faith in Disbelief". (The Common Review, Volume 4, Number 4,
Spring 2006, 31-35)
- "Faith No
More". (Book Forum, Oct/Nov 2005)
REFLECTIONS ON SOCIALISM
- "The Soul
of Socialism". (New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought,
Vol X1, No 1 Summer, 2006)
- "The Left Needs
More Socialism". (The Nation, April 17, 2006; posted April 1,
2006) (also posted at Common Dreams News Center,
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0331-22.htm)
- "Letters: Our
Readers and Ronald Aronson". (The Nation, June 5, 2006; posted
May 17, 2006)
- "The
Impermanent Revolution". (Review of Isaac Deutscher's Trotsky
trilogy). (The Nation, March 15, 2005; posted February 24, 2005)
-
"Jean-Paul
Sartre at 100: Still troubling us today". (International Herald Tribune,
June 22, 2005)
See also: Doug Ireland "Sartre at 100: Still
Relevant":
DIRELAND;
ZNet
- Camus and Sartre:
The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended
It. (University
of Chicago Press, January 2004)
See book reviews.
- "Review Article: Communism's Posthumous Trial".
(History and Theory 42, No. 2, May 2003)
- "Camus vs Sartre – Fifty years on: How the Cold War destroyed a
friendship". (The [London] Times Literary Supplement, September 27,
2002)
- "Hope after Hope?" (Social Research, Volume 66, No. 2 "Hope and
Despair", Summer, 1999)
Complete texts of out of print books (with original pagination and near-original formatting)
"Professional Revolutionary: The Life of Saul Wellman"
About the film
Film
Website
"1st Amendment on Trial: The Case of the Detroit Six"
Film Website
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