385 pages
English language
Published July 27, 1996 by Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited.
Intellectuals
Paul Bede Johnson: Intellectuals (1996, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
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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.
Subjects
- Intellectuals.
- Intellectual life.
- Civilization, Modern.