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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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 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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