Intellectuals

Intellectuals
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0061871478
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"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New York Times Book Review 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.

Intellectuals
Language: en
Pages: 416

Intellectuals

Authors: Paul Johnson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New York Times Book Review A fascinating portrait of the minds
Public Intellectuals
Language: en
Pages: 465

Public Intellectuals

Authors: Richard A. Posner
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political o
Intellectuals and Society
Language: en
Pages: 496

Intellectuals and Society

Authors: Thomas Sowell
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-06 - Publisher: Basic Books

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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and
Intellectuals and Race
Language: en
Pages: 194

Intellectuals and Race

Authors: Thomas Sowell
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-12 - Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

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Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explor
The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Language: en
Pages: 503

The New York Intellectuals, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

Authors: Alan M. Wald
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-10 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebra