Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Intellectuals

Front Cover
77 Reviews
HarperCollins, Apr 11, 1990 - History - 400 pages
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.

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
15
4 stars
30
3 stars
24
2 stars
6
1 star
2

Review: Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

User Review  - Erskine - Goodreads

This book was both interesting and irritating. I enjoyed reading about the various intellectuals covered in the book, but Johnson seemed more interested in dishing dirt on them in an effort to ... Read full review

Review: Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

User Review  - Scott - Goodreads

This book opened my eyes to the lives of many movers and shakers of history, though the method of "short biography followed by exploration of sexual deviancy" got pretty tired after a while ... Read full review

All 75 reviews »

Related books

Other editions - View all

References to this book

From other books

Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis
Transforming school cultures
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

Marketing Theory
Evert Gummesson - Marketing Theory
The media and narratives of the intellectual
Nicholas Garnham - 1995 - Media, Culture & Society
A Multiparadigm Approach to Nursing.
Joan Engebretson - 1997 - Advances in Nursing Science
All Scholar search results »

References from web pages

Al-Ahram Weekly | Books | A farewell to the intellectuals
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson, London: Phoenix Press 2000. pp385 Le Débat, No. 110, May -- August 2000. Paris: Gallimard.
weekly.ahram.org.eg/ 2000/ 499/ books4.htm

Books of The Times; An Argument for Paying No Mind to ...
In addition to all the usual sorts of human frailties, intellectuals are ... Even intellectuals themselves have looked askance at the rarefied life of the ...
query.nytimes.com/ gst/ fullpage.html?res=950DE3D81439F932A15751C0A96F948260

Marxism: Opiate of the Intellectuals
Communism as the opiate of the intellectuals. ... "The belief [hopefully] seems to be spreading that intellectuals are no wiser as mentors, or worthier as ...
www.rjgeib.com/ thoughts/ opiate/ opiate.html

American Thinker: Why Do Intellectuals Oppose the Military?
Almost a decade ago the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick penned an essay asking "Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?" That is, why would those who ...
www.americanthinker.com/ 2007/ 03/ why_do_intellectuals_oppose_th.html

intellectuals – Dictionary Definition of intellectuals ...
Definition Of intellectuals – Our online dictionary has intellectuals Information from A Dictionary of Sociology dictionary. Encyclopedia.com: English ...
www.encyclopedia.com/ doc/ 1O88-intellectuals.html

NZ Conservative: Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals"
Down at my local library I picked up a copy of Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals, which has been a real eye opener (acknowledgements to Michael Cadwallader). ...
newzealandconservative.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 02/ paul-johnsons-intellectuals.html

avaxhome -> ebooks -> Paul Johnson - Intellectuals 1988
Paul Johnson - Intellectuals 1988. English / ISBN: 0060916575 / PDF / 400 pages / 7.70 Mb. Conservative historian Paul Johnson wears his ideology proudly on ...
avaxsphere.com/ ebooks/ johnson_paul_intellectuals.html

Freespace: Libertarian Bookworm
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson is a series of biographical sketches of ... The problem with the book is that Johnson isn’t talking about intellectuals, ...
sandefur.typepad.com/ freespace/ 2005/ 04/ intellectuals.html

Palestinian and Israeli Intellectuals in the Shadow of Oslo and ...
Intellectuals in Politics: The General and the Particular ... This study of Palestinian and Israeli intellectuals was conceived during more ...
www.tau.ac.il/ dayancenter/ PalestinianandIsraeliIntellectuals-bruce.pdf

vry :: Beware of intellectuals :: November :: 2006
The current public debate around intellectuals calls to mind Paul Johnson’s conclusion in Intellectuals, in which he outlines the noxious role of ...
vry.blogsome.com/ 2006/ 11/ 05/ beware-of-intellectuals/

About the author (1990)

Paul Johnson lives in London.

Bibliographic information