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.
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
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...
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...
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。
评分一言以蔽之,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。
评分Intellect is the hamartia of men.
评分八卦大集……
评分Intellect is the hamartia of men.
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