Intellectuals and politics : social theory in a changing world

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Intellectuals and politics : social theory in a changing world

edited by Charles C. Lemert

(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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