Intellectuals - Brossura

Johnson, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0297796275 ISBN 13: 9780297796275

Casa editrice: W&N, 1989

Riassunto

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.

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Descrizione del libro:

Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity.

L'autore:

Paul Johnson was born in 1928. He edited the New Statesman in the 1960s and has written over forty books. His Modern Times, a history of the world from the 1920s to the 1990s, has been translated into more than fifteen languages. As well as a weekly column in the Spectator, he contributes to newspapers all over the world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0297796275
• ISBN 13: 9780297796275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400