Intellectuals

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Paul Johnson, who was born in 1928, has written over forty books and is one of Britain's leading historians. A former editor of the New Statesman, he is a frequent contributor to newspapers throughout the world. His book Modern Times has been translated into thirty languages; Intellectuals has been translated into twenty languages. His History of Christianity and History of the Jews are standard works in five continents. His other books include The Offshore Islanders, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 and A History of the American People. He lives in London and Somerset.

出版者:Phoenix
作者:Paul Johnson
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页数:400
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出版时间:2005-3-3
价格:GBP 9.99
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9781842120392
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  • intellectuals 
  • 知识分子 
  • 社会 
  • 文化 
  • 西方 
  • 政治 
  • 八卦 
  • 英文 
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Veteran political commentator, scholar and former editor of The New Statesman Paul Johnson has collected all the nasty, cruel and disgusting episodes in the lives of the mighty dead in order to question their "moral and judgmental credentials to give advice to humanity on how to conduct its affairs."

Intellectuals, according to Johnson, often possess a defining set of characteristic traits; they are lying, cheating, hypocritical, megalomaniacs who combine an abstract love of humanity with an exploitative, selfish and cruel treatment of those who were closest to them. Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer and Kenneth Tynan are put under the spotlight and damned as moral exemplars and truth-tellers while Edmund Wilson, Evelyn Waugh and Orwell provide the necessary foil of intellectual integrity.

This is a voyeuristic, gossip-mongering, ruthless and completely compelling book that leaves a bad taste in the mouth if you consume it at one sitting. Fortunately--since it's a collection of short biographical essays or exposès one can dip in where one likes. Intellectuals is well researched and has the polished concision one might expect from a veteran journalist and scholar. It also has the advantage of dealing with subject matter that is fascinating in itself--the extravagant personalities and spectacular immoralities of some of our most revered figures. Intellectuals doesn't always work as dispassionate intellectual history--for instance the overview of intellectual trends since the 1960s in the final chapter "The Flight of Reason" seems forced--but as a set of exposès it is splendid. --Larry Brown

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之前看了两章,今晚继续,保罗·约翰逊的【知识分子】,眼中一片悲凉。作为文字的生产者,他们都热爱抽象的人,但大多并不能延伸到任何一个具体的人,当然,除了自己。他们热衷与观察这个社会和之间的人,包括自己,带着浓厚的主观色彩,不可否认,正是这些主观的东西让他们的...  

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从十七世纪开始,知识分子逐渐脱离对权贵的依附,成为一个新兴的独立阶层。几百年来,对于知识分子的崇拜与质疑从未间断。知识分子一方面作为人类前进的导师,具有任何阶层都不具备的持久而深远的国家影响力乃至世界影响力。他们一面继承“帝王师”的角色,引领社会与历史发展...  

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但我还要再进一步说,在我们这个悲剧的世纪,千百万无辜的生命牺牲于改善全部人性的那些计划——最主要的教训之一是:提防知识份子。 不但要把他们同权利杠杆隔离开来,而且当他们试图集体提供劝告时,他们应当成为特别怀疑的对象。提放知识分子的委员会、讨论会和联盟,不要...

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Somebody once said our eyes do not show a lack of sense of beauty, but a lack of discovery. Apparently, it's an undoubtful guide to Paul Johnson and his controversial book Intellectuals, only what he want to discover is not beauty, but scandals and gossips....  

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Intellect is the hamartia of men.

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A good book! I like all those intellectuals better after knowing how normal they are.

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八卦大集……

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公知都不是好东西

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一言以蔽之,文人=jerk。本书详细地扒了很多人的皮,其实在我看来没多少意思,因为我从来也不怎么买这些人的帐。

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