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Jean-Paul Aron

Jean-Paul Aron

Born: 1925-05-27 • Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 – 20 August 1988) 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.

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Filmography
Le Passeur immobile poster
Le Passeur immobile
2021 • Self
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande poster
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
2021 • Self (archive footage)
Amours décolorées poster
Amours décolorées
1998
Avec Mariola poster
Avec Mariola
1987 • Self
Lire poster
Lire
1986 • Self