{"product_id":"portraits-edward-shils-9780226753379","title":"Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals","description":"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 deep respect for intellectuals who maintain their integrity under great pressure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHighlights 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\u003eMany 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\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Shils\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226753379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226753379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.52w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1997 pg. 536","brand":"Edward Shils","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056657461503,"sku":"9780226753379","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eca7e4b7-14ef-4a88-aec0-c9ba446f9f58.jpg?v=1685042541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/portraits-edward-shils-9780226753379","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}