Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph E...
Portraits : a gallery of intellectuals / Edward Shils ; edited, and with an introduction by Joseph Epstein.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N920.073/46
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English
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255 p. ; 23 cm.
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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 Szila...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Illinois
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1997.
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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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N920.073/46
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0226753379 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226753362 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226753360 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226753379 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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920.073
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991005342239702626