Intellectuals and the crisis of modernity

Author(s)

• Boggs, Carl

Bibliographic Information

Intellectuals and the crisis of modernity

Carl Boggs

（SUNY series in radical social and political theory）

State University of New York Press, c1993

• : alk. paper
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book explores the role of intellectuals in politics and social change from traditional society to the present. Its theoretical structure is based upon six distinct types of intellectual activity. The rise and decline of specific types is analyzed in the historical context of industrialization, technological change, shifting social forces, and the emergence of popular movements.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: Intellectuals, Politics, and Theory 2. Pre-Industrial Society and the Origins of Jacobinism Intellectuals and Politics Varieties of Jacobinism Anti-Jacobin Responses 3. Intellectuals and the Marxist Tradition Marxism—A Divided Legacy Lenin's Marxist Jacobinism The Spontaneist Critique The Gramscian Synthesis The Triumph of Jacobinism 4. Modernity and the Transformation of Intellectuals Fragmentation and Jacobinism: The Italian Case Postwar Development: From Cleavage to Convergence Modernity and the Rise of a Technocratic Intelligentsia A New Jacobinism? 5. The University, Modernity, and the Diffusion of Technocratic Discourse Professionalism and the Cult of Technology The Rationalization of Academic Life The Academic Subversion of Marxism Theory for What? Conclusions 6. The Crisis of Modernity: Technocratic, Critical, and Other Intellectuals New Sources of Cleavage, New Modes of Opposition The Critical Enterprise—Past and Present Intellectuals and New Social Movements The Future of Intellectuals Epilogue: Intellectuals and the Collapse of Communism Notes Index

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Details

• NCID: BA20825321
• ISBN:
  • 0791415430
  • 0791415449
• LCCN: 92031368
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 222 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM213
  • DC20 : 303.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Intellectuals
  • LCSH : Modernism
  • LCSH : Social change
  • LCSH : Social movements
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13143445