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Bezig met laden... Intellectuals (1988)door Paul Johnson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Interesting book on philosophers and others. ( ) Other than saying I loved reading this book, while also being exasperated by what felt like increasingly dishonest authorial motivation, I'll let two of the critical blurbs contained in the volume speak for me. (I've no clue how to rate this with stars.) From Publishers Weekly: "These pummeling profiles of illustrious intellectuals are caustic, skewed, thought-provoking, and thoroughly engaging." From Christopher Hitchens: "On every page there is something low, sniggering, mean, and eavesdropped from third-hand." I'm giving this title 3 stars, not because it isn't a good read -- it's very lively and entertaining. I'm just not sure why Paul Johnson wrote it, unless he had a lot of material left over from other books and wanted to work it up into something. That famous writers and thinkers down through the ages have behaved badly isn't exactly news, at least not to historians. His selection of subjects is a little uneven. While Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx were definitely important intellectual and cultural forces, many of the other writers profiled here (Norman Mailer, Lillian Hellman) seem more like products of existing cultural trends, rather than creators of them. To sum up, Intellectuals is good gossipy fun, but I'm not sure the author succeeds in making a point. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)305.552Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Class Middle Class Intelligentsia, IntellectualsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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