Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky pdf

Paul Johnson lavora come storico, giornalista e autore. Ha studiato alla Stonyhurst School di Clitheroe, nel Lancashire e al Magdalen College di Oxford, ed è diventato famoso negli anni '50 come giornalista scrivendo per la rivista New Statesman e in seguito modificandola. Ha anche scritto per i principali giornali e riviste in Gran Bretagna, Stati Uniti ed Europa. Paul Johnson ha pubblicato oltre 40 libri tra cui A History of Christianity (1979), A History of the English People (1987), Intellectuals (1988), The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830 (1991), Modern Times: Una storia del mondo dagli anni '20 all'anno 2000 (1999), Una storia del popolo americano (2000), Una storia degli ebrei (2001) e Arte: una nuova storia (2003), nonché le biografie di Elisabetta I (1974), Napoleone (2002), George Washington (2005) e Papa Giovanni Paolo II (1982).

Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky pdf da Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity. 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.