TY - BOOK ID - 22644515 TI - Intellectuals PY - 1990 SN - 0060160500 PB - New York London Tokyo Perennial Library DB - UniCat KW - Beschaving [Moderne ] KW - Civilisation moderne KW - Civilization [Modern ] KW - Cultural life KW - Intellectual life KW - Intellectuals KW - Intellectueel leven KW - Intellectuele arbeiders KW - Intellectuelen KW - Intellectuels KW - Intelligentsia KW - Leven [Intellectueel ] KW - Milieu intellectuel KW - Milieux intellectuels KW - Penseurs KW - Travailleurs intellectuels KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Civilization, Modern. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Intellectuals. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22644515 AB - 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, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous. The author examines the rise of the intellectual as a sort of secular seer and moral arbiter, a role once filled by the priest or soothsayer. These intellectuals, in the author's opinion, promote themselves as possessing the moral authority to transform society, a claim that the author disputes. ER -