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Chargement... Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (original 2013; édition 2013)par Jeremy Adelman
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Jeremy Adelman is an expert on South American economies, particularly as to developing countries. He has documented the deliberate efforts on the part of the latifundia and plutocrats to suppress the middle class. He now presents a brilliant biography of the great unreconstructed student of Adam Smith, Albert O. Hirschman, who among other work, is the author of "Exit, Voice, Loyalty." "Exit" is economics, and "Voice" is politics. His biographer captures the polymath pith of his colorful subject in this brilliant biography. Adelman has the gift of recognizing greatness among the peerage and the decency to share it with the rest of us. Hirschman is a "Worldly Philosopher" in the sense that he understood the insensate idiocy of "nationalism" at the beginning of the 19th century, traced it through the 20th and buried it in the 21st. Hirschman was fluent--with barely a trace of an accent--in six languages, and in every science. We still lobby for his Nobel Prize in Economics. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. Born in Berlin in 1915, Hirschman grew up amid the promise and turmoil of the Weimar era, but fled Germany when the Nazis seized power in 1933. Amid hardship and personal tragedy, he volunteered to fight against the fascists in Spain and helped many of Europe's leading artists and intellectuals escape to America after France fell to Hitler. His intellectual career led him to Paris, London, and Trieste, and to academic appointments at Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was an influential adviser to governments in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, as well as major foundations and the World Bank. Along the way, he wrote some of the most innovative and important books in economics, the social sciences, and the history of ideas. Throughout, he remained committed to his belief that reform is possible, even in the darkest of times. This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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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. ( )