Jean-Paul Aron
Encyclopedia
Jean-Paul Aron was a French
writer, philosopher and journalist
. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS
, 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.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
writer, philosopher and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984. He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
, 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.
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 LadurieEmmanuel Le Roy LadurieEmmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime, particularly the history of the peasantry.-Early life and career:...
and Paul Dumont), Mouton, 1972 - Le Mangeur du XIXe siècle, Laffont, 1973
- 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