Intellectuals
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Add to cartIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- Language: English
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Add to cart“Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.” — New York Times Book Review
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253170
- Language: English
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant–but accessible–ideas to expand every mind.
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? Th
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0062109391
- Language: English
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The Seventh Function of Language
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) comes a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century.
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland- Author: Binet, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1250181682
- Language: English
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Point Counter Point
$17.95 Add to cartAldous Huxley’s lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a visio… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Huxley, Aldous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974494
- Language: English
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A Personal Matter
$18.00 Add to cartKenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of… [more below]
- Series: OE, Kenzaburo
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150616
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Society
$26.99 Add to cartThe 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 others who have wanted to directly infl
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465025226
- Language: English
