Theories of the New Class : intellectuals and power / Lawrence Peter King and Ivan Szelenyi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Lawrence P.

Contributor:

Szelényi, Iván.

Series:

Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 20.

Contradictions ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and intellectuals.

Power (Social sciences).

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Theories of the New Class, Iván Szelényi, one of the most incisive and respected analysts of the intellectual class, and Lawrence King put New Class theories into a broad historical framework for the first time. This book grounds class theories in contemporary issues, and uses modern polemics to revitalize historical debates on the origins of capitalism.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Intellectuals and the End of History; 1. Proto-Theories of the New Class: Hegel, Saint-Simon, and Marx; 2. The Vanguard Project; 3. A Bureaucratic Class in Soviet-Type Society; 4. Beyond Bureaucratic Power: Humanistic Intellectuals and Technocrats under State Socialism; 5. The Fall of the Class Project of the Socialist Reform Intelligentsia; 6. Intellectuals under Postcommunism; 7. Bourgeois and Post-Marxist Theories of the New Class in the West; 8. The Neo-Marxist Response to Bourgeois Theories of the New Class; 9. The Limits of the New Class Project in the West; Conclusion: The ""Third Way"" as the Fourth Wave of New Class Projects?; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9591-1

OCLC:

476095501