An edition of Intellectuals (1988)

Intellectuals

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An edition of Intellectuals (1988)

Intellectuals

Perennial Library ed.

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This volume presents a portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In a series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous. The author examines the rise of the intellectual as a sort of secular seer and moral arbiter, a role once filled by the priest or soothsayer. These intellectuals, in the author's opinion, promote themselves as possessing the moral authority to transform society, a claim that the author disputes.

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Harper & Row
Language
English
Pages
385

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Intellectuals, Intellectual life, Modern Civilization, Vie intellectuelle, Civilisation moderne et contemporaine, Intellectuels, History, Intellektueller, New York Times reviewed, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Civilization, modern, Biography, Moral and ethical aspects

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1990, Harper & Row
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1988, Harper & Row
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Intellectuals
1988, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-365)

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New York

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HM213 .J64 1990

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x, 385 p. ;
Number of pages
385

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OL14556421M
ISBN 10
0060916575
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2010671536
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22398785
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23357
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OL14927152W

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"Over the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily."

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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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