Intellectuals and the crisis of modernity
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Intellectuals and the crisis of modernity
(SUNY series in radical social and political theory)
State University of New York Press, c1993
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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
MarxismA 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 EnterprisePast and Present
Intellectuals and New Social Movements
The Future of Intellectuals
Epilogue: Intellectuals and the Collapse of Communism
Notes
Index
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