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Intellectuals

From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)

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An edition of Intellectuals (1988)

Intellectuals

From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)

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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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Harper Perennial, HarperCollins
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English
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416

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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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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)
May 1, 2007, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins
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Intellectuals
1990, Harper & Row
in English - Perennial Library ed.
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Intellectuals
1988, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Intellectuals
1988, Harper & Row
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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HM213 .J64 2007

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OL7289552M
ISBN 10
0061253170
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9780061253171
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124080836
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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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