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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Paul Johnson

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Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity.
Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles?
How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends?
Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Tynan and many others are put under the spotlight. With wit and brilliance, Paul Johnson exposes these intellectuals, and questions whether ideas should ever be valued more than individuals.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 416 pages

Publication:: 2007

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:: New Ed

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1842120395

ISBN13:: 9781842120392

kindle Asin:: B000SEKCX8

Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Paul Johnson

3.86/5 (1548 ratings)

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Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity.
Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles?
How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends?
Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Tynan and many others are put under the spotlight. With wit and brilliance, Paul Johnson exposes these intellectuals, and questions whether ideas should ever be valued more than individuals.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 416 pages

Publication:: 2007

Publisher:: Harper Perennial

Edition:: New Ed

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1842120395

ISBN13:: 9781842120392

kindle Asin:: B000SEKCX8

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