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Pages: 191
Authors: John Carey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-20 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and r
Intellectuals and Society
Language: en
Pages: 600
Authors: Thomas Sowell
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-06 - Publisher: Basic Books

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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and
What Good Are the Arts?
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: John Carey
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art offers a provocative study that will pique the interest of and inspire any reader who loves paint
Intellectual Morons
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Daniel J. Flynn
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-21 - Publisher: Forum Books

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Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States “the new Hitler” and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the Septembe
The Opium of the Intellectuals
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Raymond Aron
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-31 - Publisher: Transaction Publishers

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Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas