Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 – 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and

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. His most notable work is ''Les Modernes'', which was published in 1984.

Life

Aron was born in

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

. He was a close friend of

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...

in the early 1950s, before a falling out over a lover. He was, like Foucault, an early person of renown in France to die of

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, 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

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(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

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), Grasset, 1978 *''Misérable et glorieuse, la femme du XIXe siècle'' (animated and presented by Jean-Paul Aron), Fayard, 1980

References

External links

*
Jean-Paul Aron's entry in the glbtq encyclopedia
1925 births Writers from Strasbourg 1988 deaths 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences AIDS-related deaths in France {{LGBT-bio-stub