Jeremy Adelman
Auteur de Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
A propos de l'auteur
Jeremy Adelman is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University
Crédit image: Denise Applewhite (2008). Office of Communications, Princeton University
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- Date de naissance
- 1960-10-25
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
USA
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 226
- Popularité
- #99,470
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 26
The only thing I didn't like about the book was Adelman's occasionally excessive sycophancy and pro-Hirschman tendentiousness; at times Adelman paints this picture of Hirschman as the only economist on the planet without personal blind spots or an ideology. In all fairness some of this might be due to Hirchman's tendency to revel in the inscrutable and paradoxical, and in many of those cases it's probably Hirschman himself who was stumbling or unclear. But, fittingly, those moments are also where Adelman really shines. Hirschman was a big fan of Michel de Montaigne, the guy who invented the essay, and many of Montaigne's trademark mental digressions and inversions show up in the economist's work. What looks like a frustrating contradiction turns out to be merely a smart guy grappling with tough problems, delighting in surprises and unexpected subtleties. Hirchman's lifelong quest was to "prove Hamlet wrong" - to use the natural human urge to doubt oneself as a tool of liberation instead of paralysis, and Adelman does a mostly fantastic job at showing the fruits of Hirschman's labors.… (plus d'informations)