Intellectuals From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Name: Intellectuals From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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ISBN: 9780061253171

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Authors: Paul Johnson

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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.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Paul Johnson lives in London.




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


Notes


Index