Intellectuals
About this book
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.
Details
- First published
- 1996
- OL Work ID
- OL14927152W
Subjects
IntellectualsIntellectual lifeModern CivilizationVie intellectuelleCivilisation moderne et contemporaineIntellectuelsHistoryIntellektuellerNew York Times reviewedLiterary CriticismNonfictionCivilization, modernBiographyMoral and ethical aspects