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.
Subjects
- biography
- civilisation moderne et contemporaine
- civilization, modern
- history
- intellectual life
- intellectuals
- intellectuels
- intellektueller
- literary criticism
- modern civilization
- moral and ethical aspects
- new york times reviewed
- nonfiction
- vie intellectuelle