Desire is a reliably unreliable guide to happiness, as Alain de Botton notes in "The Architecture of Happiness," the fifth or sixth book from the prolific professional intellectual who has tackled everything from status anxiety to sex.
A prolific and intellectual activist in the Black freedom struggle, he was also an ardent supporter of "all rights for all"—the motto of Frederick Douglass Paperr, where articles against the Fugitive Slave Law appeared alongside reports on the women's suffrage movement, accounts of violations of the rights of disabled persons, and news about the freedmen's Colored Conventions.
James Baldwin, one of the most prolific writers and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance, suggested a very specific process for escaping the crippling confines of hatred and oppression as a man of color in America.
Lewis Samuel Feuer, a scholar whose career and prolific writings reflected his intellectual journey from Marxist orthodoxy to neoconservatism, died on Sunday at a nursing home in Newton, Mass.
Volodia Teitelboim, who has died aged 91, was a leading Chilean Communist party (CCP) intellectual, a prolific writer and winner of that country's national prize for literature in 2002.
This edition includes new essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert". Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was a prolific philosopher and public intellectual who, throughout his illustrious career, taught at Princeton, the University of Virginia, and, until his death, Stanford University.
Max Eastman (1883 1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century.
Mike McConnell, former U.S. director of national intelligence, has called China the "the most prolific" state thief of U.S. intellectual property.
Paul Johnson is a gifted intellectual and a prolific writer who doesn't hesitate to go against the conventional, politically correct wisdom.
