Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
Language: English
Biography Biography Memoir Classics Cultural Essays History Non Fiction Philosophy Politics Psychology
Published: Jan 2, 1988
Language: English
Biography Biography Memoir Classics Cultural Essays History Non Fiction Philosophy Politics Psychology
Published: Jan 2, 1988
Description:
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.