Portraits (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Shils
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Chicago, and London and Cambridge, England
- Principal Characters: Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Sidney Hook, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Harold Laski, Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, Leo Szilard
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Twentieth century, Education or educators, Chicago, England or English people, India or East Indian people, Humanism, Social sciences, Humanities
- Locales: Chicago, IL, London, England, Cambridge, England
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow once remarked that he knew only three intelligent people in Chicago: the art critic Harold Rosenberg, the classical scholar and translator David Grene, and the sociologist Edward Shils—the editor of Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning, and Policy and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals (compiled and introduced by Joseph Epstein, for many years editor of the American Scholar) gathers together eleven of Shils’s biographical essays, arranged...
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