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There was a Paul Johnson wrote a book called intellectual where he went into the the like the personal lives of like zaja Rousseau and Karl Marx and pretty much all these intellectuals.
Nick Freitas · Timcast IRL · Apr 2022 Listen at 7:43 The best things said about it
I don't know you've read Paul Johnson's book on intellectuals. It's a very powerful book. The closing paragraph itself is. He's a historian.
There was this book that I read when I was 17 that really informed my view on this and it's called intellectuals by Paul Johnson and he sort of goes through the lives of many of the people who are held up as like the foundation or the foundational thinkers of modern society.
Why people recommend it
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson is a critical examination of the personal lives, moral failings, and hypocrisies of prominent thinkers who shaped modern society, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx. The book has been recommended on political and cultural podcasts for its sharp perspective on intellectual history. On Timcast IRL, Nick Freitas discussed the book to illustrate the disconnect between the grand philosophies and flawed personal lives of historical leftist intellectuals. Ravi Zacharias also recommended the book on The Rubin Report, praising its powerful closing paragraph and using Johnson's historical analysis to demonstrate how influential thinkers have shaped global culture despite often having deeply disarrayed private lives. Furthermore, Hannah Claire Brimlow mentioned on Timcast IRL that reading the book at age seventeen profoundly informed her worldview regarding foundational thinkers. Across these podcasts, the book is valued as an eye-opening critique of intellectual elitism, prompting readers to examine the personal integrity of those who author society's most dominant ideological frameworks.
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Nick Freitas There was a Paul Johnson wrote a book called intellectual where he went into the the like the personal live… 1
“There was a Paul Johnson wrote a book called intellectual where he went into the the like the personal lives of like zaja Rousseau and Karl Marx and pretty much all these intellectuals”
Ravi Zacharias I don't know you've read Paul Johnson's book on intellectuals. It's a very powerful book. The closing parag… 1
“I don't know you've read Paul Johnson's book on intellectuals. It's a very powerful book. The closing paragraph itself is. He's a historian.”
Hannah Claire Brimlow there was this book that I read when I was 17 that really informed my view on this and it's called intellec… 1
“there was this book that I read when I was 17 that really informed my view on this and it's called intellectuals by Paul Johnson and he sort of goes through the lives of many of the people who are held up as like the foundation or the foundational thinkers of modern society”
