{"product_id":"portraits-a-gallery-of-intellectuals-paperback","title":"Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Shils\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these vivid portraits of prominent twentieth-century intellectuals, Edward Shils couples the sensitivity of a biographer with the profound knowledge of a highly respected scholar. Ranging as widely across various disciplines as Shils himself did, the essays gathered here share a distaste for faddists who \"run with the intellectual mob\" and a deep respect for intellectuals who maintain their integrity under great pressure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Highlights include an affectionate treatment of Leo Szilard, the physicist whose involvement with the development of the atomic bomb led him to work ceaselessly to address its social consequences; a discussion of the educational philosophy of Robert Maynard Hutchins, the University of Chicago's fifth and most controversial president; an appreciative account of the Polish emigré Leopold Labedz's well-informed and outspoken resistance to Communism; and an essay about the extraordinary Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Many of these essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Joseph Epstein, who introduces this volume with his own portrait of Edward Shils. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Though professionally a sociologist, Edward Shils was a man of wide cosmopolitan culture and experience, greatly concerned with the public problems of his time: in particular with those created by the rise of new and dangerous ideologies, the frightening possibilities of science, and the apparent abrogation of public responsibility by many Western intellectuals.\"-Hugh Trevor-Roper \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The late Edward Shils was a member of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought for forty-five years and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Calling of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Intellectuals and the Powers\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the University of Chicago Press.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.54 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467996414205,"sku":"9780226753379","price":73.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/MXZHczJNSnpVZ2xEM3BQNTZyZU9yUT09.webp?v=1777281845","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/portraits-a-gallery-of-intellectuals-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}