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I think you can disapprove of the man and it sounds like it is correct that he was disingenuous with backing his message with action, but isn’t it conceivable t
by voisin 6y ago
I think you can disapprove of the man and it sounds like it is correct that he was disingenuous with backing his message with action, but isn’t it conceivable that the message was still worth something and that the message still speaks to us?
- chewz 6y agoLong time ago I have read Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul Johnson. They are almost all shown as misguided hypocrytes but still some of them did caught spirit of the time and inspired people. > 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, 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. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55302.Intellectuals https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55302.Intellectuals
- cafard 6y agoDo newer editions have an addendum covering Paul Johnson's own scandal?
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