ISBN:
0585077436
,
9780585077437
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 222 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in radical social and political theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Intellectuals and the crisis of modernity
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Intellectuals
;
Social change
;
Social movements
;
Social movements
;
Social change
;
Intellectuals
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Intellectuals
;
Social change
;
Social movements
;
Intellectuelen
;
Postmodernisme
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
1. Introduction: Intellectuals, Politics, and Theory -- 2. Pre-Industrial Society and the Origins of Jacobinism -- 3. Intellectuals and the Marxist Tradition -- 4. Modernity and the Transformation of Intellectuals -- 5. The University, Modernity, and the Diffusion of Technocratic Discourse -- 6. The Crisis of Modernity: Technocratic, Critical, and Other Intellectuals -- Epilogue: Intellectuals and the Collapse of Communism.
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Examines the multiple and labyrinthine changes in intellectual life during the past two centuries of modernization. Boggs (social sciences, National U., Los Angeles) presents chronological chapters that discuss preindustrial society, Marxism, the university, modernity, and technocracy; an epilogue considers the reaction of intellectuals to the fall of communism. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Intellectuals, Politics, and Theory2. Pre-Industrial Society and the Origins of Jacobinism -- 3. Intellectuals and the Marxist Tradition -- 4. Modernity and the Transformation of Intellectuals -- 5. The University, Modernity, and the Diffusion of Technocratic Discourse -- 6. The Crisis of Modernity: Technocratic, Critical, and Other Intellectuals -- Epilogue: Intellectuals and the Collapse of Communism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-216) and index. - Description based on print version record
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