Intellectuals

by Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson

First published: 1996

Description

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 Modern Civilization Vie intellectuelle Civilisation moderne et contemporaine Intellectuels History Intellektueller New York Times reviewed Literary Criticism Nonfiction Civilization, modern

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