Conservative historian Paul Johnson wears his ideology proudly on his sleeve in this often ruthless dissection of the thinkers and artists who (in his view) have shaped modern Western culture, having replaced some 200 years ago "the old clerisy as the guides and mentors of mankind." Taking on the likes of Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Lillian Hellman, and Noam Chomsky in turn, Johnson examines one idol after another and finds them all to have feet of clay. In his account, for instance, Ernest Hemingway emerges as an artistic hero who labored endlessly to forge a literary style unmistakably his own, but also as a deeply flawed man whose concern for the perfect phrase did not carry over to a concern for the women who loved him. Gossipy and sharply opinionated, Johnson's essay in cultural history spares no one.
Does it really matter that Henrik Ibsen was vain and arrogant, that Jean-Paul Sartre was incontinent? In Johnson's view, it does: these all-too-human foibles disqualify them, and other thinkers, from presuming to criticize the shortcomings of society. "Beware intellectuals," he concludes (though, given the subjects of his book, it seems he means intellectuals only of the left). "Not only should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice." Whether one agrees or not, Johnson's profiles are frequently amusing and illuminating, as when he suggests that the only proletarian Karl Marx ever knew in person was the poor maid who worked for him for decades and was never paid, except in room and board, for her labors.
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評分保罗·约翰逊以近乎八卦的方式，更多的是通过对私生活的描写，对历史上的一些大师进行了褒贬（当然主要是贬斥和批判）。让我们来看看这个大师的名单：卢梭、雪莱、列夫·托尔斯泰、萨特、威尔逊、高兰茨、海明威……每个人都有专门一章，捎带着被品评的，还有拜伦、狄德罗等。 ...
評分保罗·约翰逊以近乎八卦的方式，更多的是通过对私生活的描写，对历史上的一些大师进行了褒贬（当然主要是贬斥和批判）。让我们来看看这个大师的名单：卢梭、雪莱、列夫·托尔斯泰、萨特、威尔逊、高兰茨、海明威……每个人都有专门一章，捎带着被品评的，还有拜伦、狄德罗等。 ...
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關於馬剋思那篇中文版刪除。
评分以記者的筆法寫偉人八卦 有趣 有料 也有偏見
评分以記者的筆法寫偉人八卦 有趣 有料 也有偏見
评分以記者的筆法寫偉人八卦 有趣 有料 也有偏見
评分痛罵左派，階級立場鮮明。
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