{"product_id":"9780061253171","title":"Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eJohnson, Paul\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHarper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5\/1\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.\"  — \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of biographical essays, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unflinching collection of biographical essays exposes the startling contradictions between their public pronouncements and private lives:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA History of Ideas:\u003c\/b\u003e From Rousseau and Shelley to Sartre and Chomsky, discover the thinkers who forged the modern mind—and the often-shocking personal behavior they sought to conceal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnflinching Cultural Criticism:\u003c\/b\u003e Johnson pulls no punches, examining the egotism, cruelty, and dishonesty that flourished behind the celebrated public facades of figures like Marx, Tolstoy, and Hemingway.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Private Lives of Public Figures:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore the gap between enlightened ideals and personal reality, from Rousseau’s abandonment of his children to the serial betrayals that marked the lives of so many others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Provocative Reassessment:\u003c\/b\u003e This classic polemic challenges readers to question the moral authority of intellectuals and reconsider the ideas we have inherited from these brilliant but deeply contradictory men.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46806017671423,"sku":"9780061253171","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780061253171_s600x595.jpg?v=1779895267","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780061253171","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}