Jean-Paul Aron

Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 – 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist.[1] His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.

Life

Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault in the early 1950s, before a falling out over a lover.[2] He was, like Foucault, an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS,[3] and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. He is buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris.

Selected publications

Novels and plays
  • La Retenue (novel) Grasset, 1962
  • Point mort (novel) Grasset, 1964
  • Le Bureau (play), 1970
  • Fleurets mouchetés (play), 1970
  • Les Voisines (play), 1980

Essays
  • Essai sur la sensibilité alimentaire à Paris au XIXe siècle, Armand Colin, 1967
  • Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (presentation by Jean-Paul Aron), 10/18, 1968
  • Essai d'épistémologie biologique, Christian Bourgois, 1969
  • Anthropologie du conscrit français (with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Paul Dumont), Mouton, 1972
  • Le Mangeur du XIXe siècle, Laffont, 1973, translate in English The art of eating in France: Manners and menus in the nineteenth century. Harper & Row, 1976.
  • Qu’est-ce que la culture française?, Denoël-Gonthier, 1975
  • Le Pénis et la démoralisation de l’Occident (with Roger Kempf), Grasset, 1978
  • Misérable et glorieuse, la femme du XIXe siècle (animated and presented by Jean-Paul Aron), Fayard, 1980

References
  1. "Jean-Paul Aron, 62, Writer, Philosopher". Newsday. 22 August 1988. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  2. Macey, David (1993). The Lives of Michel Foucault. London: Hutchinson. p. 48.
  3. "Mon sida, par Jean-Paul Aron". Le Nouvel Observateur (in French). Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2010.


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