Jean-Paul Aron
Jean-Paul Aron was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.
Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault 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 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.Novels and plays
- La Retenue Grasset, 1962
- Point mort Grasset, 1964
- Le Bureau, 1970
- Fleurets mouchetés, 1970
- Les Voisines, 1980
Essays
- Essai sur la sensibilité alimentaire à Paris au XIXe siècle, Armand Colin, 1967
- Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, 10/18, 1968
- Essai d'épistémologie biologique, Christian Bourgois, 1969
- Anthropologie du conscrit français, 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, Grasset, 1978
- Misérable et glorieuse, la femme du XIXe siècle, Fayard, 1980
