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The strange death of the public intellectual

Herman, David

New statesman (1996), 2017-01, Vol.146 (5351), p.40

London: New Statesman, Ltd

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  • Título:
    The strange death of the public intellectual
  • Autor: Herman, David
  • Assuntos: Appreciation ; British culture ; Deaths ; Embryology ; Forecasts and trends ; Market trend/market analysis ; Modern philosophy ; Philosophers ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, Modern ; Williams, Bernard ; Writers
  • É parte de: New statesman (1996), 2017-01, Vol.146 (5351), p.40
  • Notas: content type line 24
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  • Descrição: According to David Edmonds, the editor of the recently published essay collection Philosophers Take on the World (Oxford University Press): "The idea that you would now commission someone to interview Freddie Ayer in an armchair for 45 minutes with no sound effects, no cutaways, is almost inconceivable." Alain de Botton currently has 639,000 followers; Daniel Dennett has almost 200,000. Since his breakthrough book, How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), de Botton has written The Art of Travel and The Architecture of Happiness, among others, and presented the television documentaries The Perfect Home and Status Anxiety. [...]the border guards have changed.
  • Editor: London: New Statesman, Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês

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