Intellectuals and politics : social theory in a changing world
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Intellectuals and politics : social theory in a changing world
（Key issues in sociological theory, 5）
Sage Publications, c1991
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Most of the essays were originally presented at a colloquium sponsored by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 1989
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This expert consideration of the new relationship between knowledge and power appears at a time of unprecedented change in the global political order. The contributors provide an open-ended discussion of politics and intellectuals set against a background of the turbulent events in Europe, Southern Africa, China and Central America and examine the role that academics can play in the larger world of politics and policy.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL INTELLECTUALS
Making History and Making Theory - Dick Flacks
Notes on How Intellectuals Seek Relevance
Three Waves of New Class Theories and a Postcript - Ivan Szelenyi and Bill Martin
Learning from Feminism - Roslyn Wallach Bologh
Social Theory and Intellectual Vitality
PART TWO: WORLD POLITICS AND INTELLECTUALS
French Intellectuals from Sartre to Soft Ideology - George Ross
Political Intellectuals in the Third World - Alex Dupuy
The Caribbean Case
Eastern Europe's Lessons for Critical Intellectuals - Michael Kennedy
The Ideology of Intellectuals and the Chinese Student Protest Movement of 1989 - Craig Calhoun
PART THREE: SOCIAL THEORY OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF THEORY
Ideology and Occularcentrism - Martin Jay
Is There Anything Behind the Mirror's Tain?
Bringing Democracy Back In - Jeffrey Alexander
Universalistic Solidarity and the Civil Sphere
The Politics of Theory and the Limits of the Academy - Charles Lemert
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