Note 5 retrouvez the opium of the intellectuals et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. The opium of the intellectuals french lopium des intellectuels is a book written by raymond aron and published in 1955 it was first published in an english translation in 1957 content arons focus is upon his criticism of the widespread intellectual adherence in his time to marxism. Is there still need to denounce the opium of the intellectuals it is not the authors place to answer that question the author can only indicate the meaning which he gives today to analyses and polemics some of which were inspired by the circumstances of yesterday since 1953 what has been the major change in the ideologi . The opium of the intellectuals is a seminal book of the twentieth century an indispensable contribution to the literature of intellectual disabusement aron who died in 1983 in his late seventies is a half forgotten colossus of twentieth century intellectual life. Raymond arons 1955 masterpiece the opium of the intellectuals is one of the great works of twentieth century political reflection aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of secular religion and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality in all its