Other Writings and Discussions

REFLECTIONS ON SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM

  • “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)
  • “Review Article: Communism’s Posthumous Trial”. (History and Theory 42, No. 2, May 2003)

REFLECTIONS ON JEAN-PAUL SARTRE and ALBERT CAMUS

  • Camus at 100 (HuffPost Books: The BLOG,   11/06/2013 11:51 am)
  • The Night Sartre Became Famous  (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  May 31, 2013)
  • Place Your Bets: Sartre and the Underdog    (TLS   THE TIMES LITERARY  SUPPLEMENT – November 30, 2012,  No. 5722 )
  • “Albert Camus”  (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published October 27, 2011)
  • “For the powerless”: Review of Jonathan Judaken’s  Jean-Paul Sartre  and the Jewish Question     (TLS  THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – October 26, 2007  No. 5456 )
  • “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.
  • “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)

OTHER

  • “Don’t Cry for Detroit” by Jim Jacobs and Ronald Aronson (THE HUFFINGTON POST: The BLOG,    10/03/2013 3:16 pm)
  • “Guest commentary: What a couple of grandpas learned at Occupy Detroit”  by Robert Deneweth and Ronald Aronson (Detroit Free Press, December 20, 2011)
  • “Bring troops home from Iraq ASAP”- commentary by CHARLES ALTMAN, RONALD ARONSON and JOYCE GEHRINGER  (Detroit Free Press, September 8, 2011, p A17)
  • “Cutting program undermines Wayne State’s urban mission”  (The Detroit News  Opinion (Wednesday, September 05, 2007)

Complete texts of out of print books (with original pagination and near-original formatting)

  • The Dialectics of Disaster (1983)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosophy in the World (1980)

Discussion and Interviews:

  • “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)