Intellectuals
by Paul Bede Johnson, Paul M. Johnson, Paul Johnson
1996IntellectualsIntellectual lifeModern CivilizationVie intellectuelleCivilisation moderne et contemporaine
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Over the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily.
About this book
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.
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IntellectualsIntellectual lifeModern CivilizationVie intellectuelleCivilisation moderne et contemporaineIntellectuels
First published 1996About the author
Paul Bede Johnson
2 November 1928 – 12 January 2023
Paul Bede Johnson is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for and later editing the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. His first book, about the Suez War, appeared in 1957. He was successively lead writer, deputy editor and editor of the New Statesman magazine from 1965 to 1970. Source: Wikipedia
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