Intellectuals - Brossura

Johnson, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1842120395 ISBN 13: 9781842120392

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2000

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 and educated at Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has enjoyed a varied career, which includes army service and international journalism. He has contributed to many of the world's most famous newspapers and magazines and has travelled to all five continents to report events, interview presidents and prime ministers for the press and TV, and to lecture to academic and business audiences.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1842120395
• ISBN 13: 9781842120392
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 400