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008			170726s2007 nyu 001 | eng d
020			_a9780061253171
040			_aMIUC _beng _cMIUC
082	0		_a305.552
100	1		_93263 _aJohnson, Paul, _d1928-
245	1	0	_aIntellectuals : _bfrom Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky / _cPaul Johnson.
260			_aNew York, etc. : _bHarper Perennial, _c2007.
300			_ax, 385, 20 p. ; _c21 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aCh. 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 'An interesting madman' -- Ch. 2. Shelley, or the heartlessness of ideas -- Ch. 3. Karl Marx: 'Howling gigantic curses' -- Ch. 4. Henrik Ibsen: 'On the contrary!' -- Ch. 5. Tolstoy: God's elder brother -- Ch. 6. The deep waters of Ernest Hemingway -- Ch. 7. Bertolt Brecht: Heart of ice -- Ch. 8. Bertrand Russell: A case of logical fiddlesticks -- Ch. 9. Jean-Paul Sartre: 'A little ball of fur and ink' -- Ch. 10. Edmund Wilson: A Brand from the burning -- Ch. 11. The troubled conscience of Victor Gollancz -- Ch. 12. Lies, damned lies and Lillian Hellman -- Ch. 13. The flight of reason.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_93264 _aIntellectuals
650		0	_966 _aIntellectual life _xHistory
650		0	_91719 _aCivilization, Modern
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