Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘An Interesting Madman’

2 Shelley, or the Heartlessness of Ideas

3 Karl Marx: ‘Howling Gigantic Curses’

4 Henrik Ibsen: ‘On the Contrary!’

5 Tolstoy: God’s Elder Brother

6 The Deep Waters of Ernest Hemingway

7 Bertolt Brecht: Heart of Ice

8 Bertrand Russell: A Case of Logical Fiddlesticks

9 Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘A Little Ball of Fur and Ink’

10 Edmund Wilson: A Brand from the Burning

11 The Troubled Conscience of Victor Gollancz

12 Lies, Damned Lies and Lillian Hellman

13 The Flight of Reason

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