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Intellectuals by Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson · Booklabria

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Intellectuals

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First published: 1988
Language: English
Editions: 16

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Biography
Moral and ethical aspects
Intellectual life
Literary Criticism
Modern Civilization

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