Intellectuals

Zusatztext “So full of life and energy and fascinating detail, and so right for the moment, that anyone who picks it up will have a hard time putting it down.” Informationen zum Autor Paul Johnson is a historian whose work ranges over the millennia and the whole gamut of human activities. He regularly writes book reviews for several UK magazines and newspapers, such as the Literary Review and The Spectator , and he lectures around the world. He lives in London, England. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read."  —  New York Times Book Review 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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Johnson, Paul M. Johnson
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2007
• EAN: 9780061253171
• ISBN: 978-0-06-125317-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 204 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / Social Theory *, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, HISTORY: INTELLECTUAL, HISTORY: Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY: OF IDEAS, POLITICAL SCIENCE: History & Theory, HISTORY: Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM: Modern / 20th Century