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010			_a 2010671536
020			_a0060160500 (hardcover)
020			_a9780060160500 (hardcover)
020			_a0060916575 (pbk.)
020			_a9780060916572 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm22398785
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050	0	0	_aHM213 _b.J64 1990
082	0	4	_a305.552
100	1		_aJohnson, Paul, _d1928- _951651
245	1	0	_aIntellectuals / _cPaul Johnson.
250			_aPerennial Library edition
260			_aNew York : _bHarper & Row, _c1990, c1988.
300			_ax, 385 pages ; _c21 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-365).
505	0		_aJean-Jacques Rousseau : 'an interesting madman' -- Shelley, or the heartlessness of ideas -- Karl Marx : 'howling gigantic curses' -- Henrik Ibsen : 'on the contrary!' -- Tolstoy : God's elder brother -- The deep waters of Ernest Hemingway -- Bertolt Brecht : heart of ice -- Bertrand Russell : a case of logical fiddlesticks -- Jean-Paul Sartre : 'a little ball of fur and ink' -- Edmund Wilson : a brand from the burning -- The troubled conscience of Victor Gollancz -- Lies, damned lies and Lillian Hellman -- The flight of reason.
520			_aThis volume presents a portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In a series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous. The author examines the rise of the intellectual as a sort of secular seer and moral arbiter, a role once filled by the priest or soothsayer. These intellectuals, in the author's opinion, promote themselves as possessing the moral authority to transform society, a claim that the author disputes.
650		0	_aIntellectuals. _951652
650		0	_aIntellectual life. _951653
650		0	_aCivilization, Modern. _951654
650	0	7	_aIntellektueller. _2swd _951655
650	0	7	_aSocial sciences. _951656
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cAkbar Ali Khan Collection
942			_2ddc _cBK
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