Intellectuals and Society (Audiobook)
Intellectuals and Society (Audiobook) By Thomas Sowell, Tom Weiner
Publisher: Blackstone Audio 2010 | 11 hours and 25 mins | ISBN: 1441715630 | MP3 | 242 MB
Publisher: Blackstone Audio 2010 | 11 hours and 25 mins | ISBN: 1441715630 | MP3 | 242 MB
Even government leaders with disdain or contempt for intellectuals have had to bend to the climate of opinion shaped by those intellectuals. In Intellectuals and Society, Sowell examines not only the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also the incentives and constraints under which their views have emerged. One of the 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 societ--and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views. This is a book about intellectuals written for the lay person. Its purpose is to unravel the world of intellectuals in order to understand an important social phenomenon how the thinkers of our society mold that society, leaving an impact on people in every walk of life, even if they are basically unknown to the world at large. It is a portion of the population whose activities can have, and have had, momentous implications for nations and civilizations.