Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
by:
Paul Johnson (author)
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin,...
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A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061253171 (0061253170)
Publish date: May 1st 2007
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology
This is not a book about what why each of the profiled intellectuals profiled are worthy of being remembered, but it's mostly how they are flawed human beings. The author would pick an intellectual, barely explain why they are important today, and then dwell on the persons foibles to a churlish degr...
This book should be named The Other Side of Left-Wing Intellectuals. It is very misleading to just say Intellectuals because it made me expect that it would talk about prominent thinkers and would analyze their thoughts and their influences, etc.Well, Johnson does discuss their thoughts, but more im...
Paul Hollander, in a review of Intellectuals by Paul Johnson defines "intellectual" as a western concept connoting "preoccupation with and respect for ideas but not for ideas as sacred doctrines." (Society, Se/Oc 1989, p. 97) The positive embodiment of this ideal is the "fearless social critic, inqu...
Points out the hypocritical flaws of many intellectuals you've probably heard of, and some you probably haven't heard of: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau -Percy Shelley -Henrik Ibsen -Karl Marx -Leo Tolstoy -Ernest Hemingway -Bertolt Brecht -Jean-Paul Sartre -Edmund Wilson -Victor Gollancz -Lillian Hellman -...
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