Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals

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Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals

Edward Shils ; edited and with an introduction by Joseph Epstein

University of Chicago Press, c1997

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: alk. paper ISBN 9780226753362

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Ranging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays demonstrates a distaste for intellectuals who "run with the intellectual mob", and a deep respect for those who maintain their integrity under great pressure. The collection includes an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, the physicist whose involvement with the development of the atomic bomb led him to work towards addressing its social consequences; a discussion of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, the University of Chicago's fifth, and most controversial, president; an account of the Polish emigre Leopold Labedz's outspoken resistance to communism, and an essay on Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri. Many of these essays have appeared in "The American Scholar", edited by Joseph Epstein, who introduces this volume with his own portrait of Edward Shils.

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My Friend Edward Joseph Epstein 1: A Gallery of Academics, Mainly in Chicago 2: Raymond Aron 3: Nirad C. Chaudhuri 4: Sidney Hook 5: Robert Maynard Hutchins 6: Leopold Labedz 7: Harold Laski 8: Karl Mannheim 9: Arnaldo Dante Momigliano 10: John U. Nef 11: Leo Szilard
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: pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780226753379

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Ranging widely across many disciplines, this collection of essays demonstrates a distaste for intellectuals who "run with the intellectual mob", and a deep respect for those who maintain their integrity under great pressure. The collection includes an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, the physicist whose involvement with the development of the atomic bomb led him to work towards addressing its social consequences; a discussion of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, the University of Chicago's fifth, and most controversial, president; an account of the Polish emigre Leopold Labedz's outspoken resistance to communism, and an essay on Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri. Many of these essays have appeared in "The American Scholar", edited by Joseph Epstein, who introduces this volume with his own portrait of Edward Shils.

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