02915nam a22004217a 4500 39580 BD-DhAAL 220927t19901988nyu 001 0 eng d 2010671536 0060160500 (hardcover) 9780060160500 (hardcover) 0060916575 (pbk.) 9780060916572 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocm22398785 KFP KFP RSC BAKER TBS BTCTA YDXCP HNW DEBBG CUK DLC BD-DhAAL lccopycat HM213 .J64 1990 305.552 Johnson, Paul, 1928- 51651 Intellectuals / Paul Johnson. Perennial Library edition New York : Harper & Row, 1990, c1988. x, 385 pages ; 21 cm. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365). Jean-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. This 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. Donated By Akbar Ali Khan 39580, 41117 Intellectuals. 51652 Intellectual life. 51653 Civilization, Modern. 51654 Intellektueller. swd 51655 Social sciences. 51656 Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection ddc BK 44922 44922 0 0 ddc 0 305_552000000000000_JOH 1 71893 BRACUL BRACUL AAKC 2022-09-27 Donated by Akbar Ali Khan 0 305.552 JOH 3010039580 2022-09-27 1 2022-09-27 BK 0 0 ddc 0 305_552000000000000_JOH 1 73546 BRACUL BRACUL AAKC 2023-04-12 Donated by Akbar Ali Khan 1590.32 0 305.552 JOH 3010041117 2023-04-12 2 1590.32 2023-04-12 BK $14.95 Price available in book.