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  1. 5. Jan. 2010 · Intellectuals and Society. Hardcover – January 5, 2010. by Thomas Sowell (Author) 4.8 1,455 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have ...

  2. Sowell defines intellectuals as people whose occupations deal primarily with ideas, in particular that they deal in the ideas and do not apply them. Scientists and engineers are not intellectuals. Mathematicians are not, so that Bertrand Russell as a mathematician was not an intellectual, however when suggesting in 1937 that Britain should completely disarm, he was. George Bernard Shaw, one of ...

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  3. 10. Dez. 2009 · Intellectuals and Society also has some super-interesting writing about the influence of the intelligentsia on a post-WW1 society, that helped create a culture of pacifism that permeated through France and much of western Europe. Sowell argues that this culture of pacifism would eventually lead to an emboldened Hitler violating the treaty of Versailles with military build-ups, Germany annexing ...

  4. 6. März 2012 · Sowell provides the important distinction that engineers and scientists and financiers, for example, while not considered to be "public intellectuals", are judged by external standards - by empirical notions of verifiability. Intellectuals, on the other hand, face no such external test. Rather, it is the mere acceptance their own peers provide ...

  5. 6. März 2012 · Intellectuals and Society is something of a summa of Sowell’s concerns over the last 40 years… The power of Sowell’s book owes to its concreteness. He has an enviable gift for showing that many of our social problems arise from the differences between ‘the theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world.’… this learned and thoughtful book demonstrates what its author ...

  6. 5. Jan. 2010 · Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of ...