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The intellectual as stranger : studies in spokespersonship / Dick Pels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pels, Dick, 1948-
- Series:
- Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 30.
- Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--History.
- Intellectuals.
- Intellectual life--History.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outsider to society. Using detailed case-studies, Pels examines the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Speaking the spokesperson; The proletarian as stranger; Speaking for social things: sociology and socialism in Durkheim, Sorel and Barrs; Missionary sociology between left and right: Karl Mannheim and the right-wing challenge; The dark side of socialism: Hendrik de Man and the fascist temptation; Treason of the intellectuals: Paul de Man and Hendrik de Man; Strange standpoints; Privileged nomads; Towards a social epistemology of strangerhood; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-62597-9
- 1-280-31748-5
- 0-203-45928-8
- 0-203-25551-8
- 9780203459287
- OCLC:
- 52088664
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