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EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it 16 years ago
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...
lonesomepoint
lonesomepoint rated it 24 years ago
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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