Marxism, intellectuals and politics / edited by David Bates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bates, David, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Political activity--History--20th century.

Intellectuals.

Intellectuals--Political activity.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics throws important new light on some long-standing debates, as well as addressing a range of contemporary themes. What challenges have contemporary social and philosophical developments presented for Marxism? How extensive are the prospects for emancipatory change in capitalist societies? More specifically, what ought the political role of the intellectual to be? How have Marxist approaches contributed to understanding the intellectual's role? Addressing these questions, and many more, this text contains chapters on Marx's conception of the intellectuals, as well as on those arguments advanced in the writings of Lenin and Trotsky, Gramsci, Adorno, Sartre, Analytical Marxism and Post-Marxism. The text also contains thematic chapters exploring such issues as the role of the critical Marxist intellectual in contemporary media, the challenge posed by feminism to the Marxist view of the intellectual, intellectual labour, exploitation and class analysis, and the very nature of intellectual critique itself.

Contents:

Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics / David Bates 1

1 Marx and Intellectuals / Paul Blackledge 21

2 Lenin, Trotsky and the Role of the Socialist Intellectual in Politics / Ian D. Thatcher 43

3 Gramsci and the Intelletuals: Modern Prince versus Passive Revolution / Peter Thomas 68

4 'Unhappy Consciousness': Reflexivity and Contradiction in Jean-Paul Sartre's Changing Conception of the Role of the Intellectual / Leon Culbertson 86

5 Althusser: Intellectuals and the Conjuncture / Warren Montag 107

6 T. W. Adorno as a Critical Intellectual in the Public Sphere: Between Marxism and Modernism / Gerard Delanty 119

7 Analytical Marxism and the Academy / Jason Edwards 137

8 Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics / Sean Sayers 152

9 Intellectual Labour and Social Class / David Bates 169

10 Critical Intellectuals and the Academic Labour Process / Frank Worthington 186

11 Mediated Intellectuals: Negotiating Social Relations in Media / Lee Salter 205

12 Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive Intellectual / Jayne Raisborough, Dawn S. Jones 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403949980

9781403949981

OCLC:

70676635