Jean-Paul Aron Explained

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

Non-fiction

• 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
  • translated into English as The Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the Nineteenth Century. London: Peter Davies, 1975; New York: 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
• Les Modernes, Gallimard, 1984

External links

• • Jean-Paul Aron's entry in the glbtq encyclopedia

Notes and References

1. News: Jean-Paul Aron, 62, Writer, Philosopher. 22 August 1988. Newsday. 29 September 2010. 4 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104005842/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104048964.html?dids=104048964:104048964&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+22,+1988&author=Reuter&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Jean-Paul+Aron,+62,+Writer,+Philosopher&pqatl=google. dead.
2. Book: Macey, David . The Lives of Michel Foucault . Hutchinson . 1993 . London . 48 .
3. News: Mon sida, par Jean-Paul Aron . . fr . 29 September 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081204021154/http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/20081201/1929/mon-sida-par-jean-paul-aron . 4 December 2008 .