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Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph E...

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Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph E...

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Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph Epstein.

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Full title

Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph Epstein.

Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Date

1997.

Call Numbers

N920.073/46

Record Identifier

74VvpkP5Bgmb

MMS ID

991005342239702626

Language

English

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Physical content

255 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

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 Szila...

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Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

1997.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

In 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 dee...

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Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph Epstein.

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Call Numbers

N920.073/46

Record Identifier

74VvpkP5Bgmb

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpkP5Bgmb

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ISBN

0226753379 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780226753362 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226753360 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226753379 (pbk. : alk. paper)

DDC

920.073

MMS ID

991005342239702626

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