圖書標籤: intellectuals 知識分子 社會 文化 西方 政治 八卦 英文
发表于2024-09-09
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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
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.
Intellect is the hamartia of men.
評分A good book! I like all those intellectuals better after knowing how normal they are.
評分一言以蔽之,文人=jerk。本書詳細地扒瞭很多人的皮,其實在我看來沒多少意思,因為我從來也不怎麼買這些人的帳。
評分Intellect is the hamartia of men.
評分八卦大集……
终于读完了保罗·约翰逊(Paul Johnson)的《所谓的知识分子》(Intellectuals),这是一本“颠覆”之作,作者把笼罩在所谓的知识分子头上的光环抛开,把这些“人类的良心”放在聚光灯下,从个人生活的角度观察他们,从而揭露出他们华丽的外衣下藏着的“小”。 读这本书,首先...
評分书中很多人都是我其实很喜欢的,包括卢梭、雪莱、罗素、萨特和波伏瓦等。 也许正是因为很喜欢,所以并不惮看到约翰逊不留情面的批评。 有时候我们自己也很难区分清楚,自己究竟是喜欢一个人的思想,还是喜欢这个人所竖立的公众形象。 约翰逊的书,一方面给我们敲了警钟,不...
評分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...
評分这本书其实就是历史学家写的八卦野史,但其震撼人心之处在于主角都是我们常以为“伟光正”的著名知识分子。保罗约翰逊为我们揭示了这些整日高喊“正义”,“道德”,“博爱”的知识名流,其实个人品质并不高尚:卢梭忘恩负义,雪莱不守信用,托尔斯泰专断残暴,罗素喜欢胡说八...
評分书中很多人都是我其实很喜欢的,包括卢梭、雪莱、罗素、萨特和波伏瓦等。 也许正是因为很喜欢,所以并不惮看到约翰逊不留情面的批评。 有时候我们自己也很难区分清楚,自己究竟是喜欢一个人的思想,还是喜欢这个人所竖立的公众形象。 约翰逊的书,一方面给我们敲了警钟,不...
Intellectuals pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024