Intellectuals /
This volume presents a portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In a 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...
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| Format: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | English |
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New York :
Harper & Row,
1990, c1988.
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| Izdanje: | Perennial Library edition |
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| Classic Catalogue: | View this record in Classic Catalogue |
Sadržaj:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : 'an interesting madman'
- Shelley, or the heartlessness of ideas
- Karl Marx : 'howling gigantic curses'
- Henrik Ibsen : 'on the contrary!'
- Tolstoy : God's elder brother
- The deep waters of Ernest Hemingway
- Bertolt Brecht : heart of ice
- Bertrand Russell : a case of logical fiddlesticks
- Jean-Paul Sartre : 'a little ball of fur and ink'
- Edmund Wilson : a brand from the burning
- The troubled conscience of Victor Gollancz
- Lies, damned lies and Lillian Hellman
- The flight of reason.