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.
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.
Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061253171 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2007 |
| Series: | P.S. Series |
| Edition description: | Revised Edition |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.10(d) |