Property and power in social theory : a study in intellectual rivalry / Dick Pels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pels, Dick, 1948-

Series:

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought ; v.No.15

Standardized Title:

Macht of eigendom? English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Property.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Property and power perform a key role in social and political theories of class inequality and social stratification, however, theorists have yet clearly to define these concepts, their mutual boundaries and scopes of application. This book answers the property/power puzzle by undertaking a broad historical inquiry into its intellectual origins and present-day effects through a series of case studies, including:Marxism vs. anarchism* the fascist assertion of the primacy of the political* social science as power theory* the managerial revolution* the knowledge society and th

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the problem of intellectual rivalry; The liberal dichotomy and its dissolution; Inside the diamond: rivalry and reduction; Marxism vs. anarchism; Fascism and the primacy of the political; Social science as power theory; Power, property, and managerialism; Intellectual closure and the New Class; Towards a theory of intellectual rivalry; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Originally written as a dissertation at the University of Amsterdam and published in a Dutch translation in 1987, "it has been thoroughly revised, to such an extent as to effectively become new." Cf. Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p.287-310) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66084-7

1-280-33053-8

0-203-06857-2

9780203068571

OCLC:

560129252