Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity

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SUNY Press, 1. jan. 1993 - 222 sider
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.

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Introduction Intellectuals Politics and Theory
1
PreIndustrial Society and the Origins of Jacobinism
11
Intellectuals and Politics
15
Varieties of Jacobinism
17
AntiJacobin Responses
28
Intellectuals and the Marxist Tradition
37
Lenins Marxist Jacobinism
41
The Spontaneist Critique
46
The University Modernity and the Diffusion of Technocratic Discourse
97
Professionalism and the Cult of Technology
100
The Rationalization of Academic Life
109
The Academic Subversion of Marxism
118
Theory for What?
128
Conclusions
143
The Crisis of Modernity Technocratic Critical and Other Intellectuals
145
New Sources of Cleavage New Modes of Opposition
147

The Gramscian Synthesis
54
The Triumph of Jacobinism
60
Modernity and the Transformation of Intellectuals
63
The Italian Case
65
From Cleavage to Convergence
68
Modernity and the Rise of a Technocratic Intelligentsia
79
A New Jacobinism?
89
The Critical EnterprisePast and Present
153
Intellectuals and New Social Movements
164
The Future of Intellectuals
180
Intellectuals and the Collapse of Communism
185
Notes
193
Index
217
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Carl Boggs is Professor of Social Sciences at National University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Gramsci's Marxism; The Politics of Eurocommunism (with David Plotke); The Impasse of European Communism; The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Crisis of Western Marxism; and Social Movements and Political Power.

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