| 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, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous. |
Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Copyright page……Page 8
Contents……Page 11
Acknowledgements……Page 13
1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘An Interesting Madman’……Page 15
2 Shelley, or the Heartlessness of Ideas……Page 42
3 Karl Marx: ‘Howling Gigantic Curses’……Page 66
4 Henrik Ibsen: ‘On the Contrary!’……Page 96
5 Tolstoy: God’s Elder Brother……Page 121
6 The Deep Waters of Ernest Hemingway……Page 152
7 Bertolt Brecht: Heart of Ice……Page 187
8 Bertrand Russell: A Case of Logical Fiddlesticks……Page 211
9 Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘A Little Ball of Fur and Ink’……Page 239
10 Edmund Wilson: A Brand from the Burning……Page 266
11 The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz……Page 283
12 Lies, Damned Lies and Lillian Hellman……Page 302
George Orwell……Page 320
Evelyn Waugh……Page 324
Cyril Connolly……Page 326
Norman Mailer……Page 334
Kenneth Peacock Tynan……Page 338
Rainer Werner Fassbinder……Page 344
James Baldwin……Page 347
Noam Chomsky……Page 351
1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘An Interesting Madman’……Page 357
2 Shelley, or the Heartlessness of Ideas……Page 358
3 Karl Marx: ‘Howling Gigantic Curses’……Page 361
4 Henrik Ibsen: ‘On the Contrary!’……Page 363
5 Tolstoy: God’s Elder Brother……Page 364
6 The Deep Waters of Ernest Hemingway……Page 366
7 Bertolt Brecht: Heart of Ice……Page 368
8 Bertrand Russell: A Case of Logical Fiddlesticks……Page 369
9 Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘A Little Ball of Fur and Ink’……Page 372
10 Edmund Wilson: A Brand from the Burning……Page 374
11 The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz……Page 375
12 Lies, Damned Lies and Lillian Hellman……Page 376
13 The Flight of Reason……Page 377
B……Page 381
C……Page 383
D……Page 384
F……Page 385
G……Page 386
H……Page 387
I……Page 388
K……Page 390
M……Page 391
P……Page 393
R……Page 394
S……Page 395
U……Page 397
W……Page 398
Z……Page 399 |
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Paul Johnson-Intellectuals-Harper & Row (1988)
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