Intellectuals : From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

by Johnson, Paul M.

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Revised

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9780061253171

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0061253170

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

2/19/2010

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HarperCollins Publications

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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 'An Interesting Madman'	p. 1
Shelley, or the Heartlessness of Ideas	p. 28
Karl Marx: 'Howling Gigantic Curses'	p. 52
Henrik Ibsen: 'On the Contrary!'	p. 82
Tolstoy: God's Elder Brother	p. 107
The Deep Waters of Ernest Hemingway	p. 138
Bertolt Brecht: Heart of Ice	p. 173
Bertrand Russell: A Case of Logical Fiddlesticks	p. 197
Jean-Paul Sartre: 'A Little Ball of Fur and Ink'	p. 225
Edmund Wilson: A Brand from the Burning	p. 252
The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz	p. 269
Lies, Damned Lies and Lillian Hellman	p. 288
The Flight of Reason	p. 306
Notes	p. 343
Index	p. 367
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