The Company Of Critics: Social Criticism And Political Commitment In The Twentieth Century
A Philosophy, History, Politics book. humans with free time who are looking for some big picture...
The Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a series of eleven intellectual biographies, Michael Walzer tells not just the dramatic story of the cultural and political radical but also the more personal story of the meaning of criticism to the critic. By looking at the life and work of Julien Benda, Randolph Bourne, Martin Buber, Antonio Gramsci, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, and Breyten Breytenbach, Walzer explains the role of the public intellectual in the context of what he identifies as "the triumphs and catastrophes of our time: the two world wars, the struggles of the working...
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- ISBN: 9780465090617 / 465090613
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humans with free time who are looking for some big picture time on some big ideas folks So, I should be writing my dissertation, but instead Im reading Walzer on a soap box. But its a soap box talk I could have given, and so its appreciated. This book is what I always hope television will be like. It will be not too intellectually draining, but mildly stimulating and somewhat inspiring, just before I go to sleep. Thank...
