Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity

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State University of New York Press, 3. aug. 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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Intellectuals Politics and Theory
1
PreIndustrial Society and the Origins of Jacobinism
11
Intellectuals and the Marxist Tradition
37
Modernity and the Transformation of Intellectuals
63
The University Modernity and the Diffusion
97
Technocratic Critical
145
Intellectuals and the Collapse of Communism
185
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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