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Item Details
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THEORIES OF THE NEW CLASS
INTELLECTUALS AND POWER |
| By: |
Ivan Szelenyi |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£20.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
081664344X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780816643448 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2004 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
The term "new class" was coined in 1870 by Mikhail Bakunin to describe an intellectual elite that would attain political ascendency. The authors of this text put New Class theories into a broad historical framework. |
| Synopsis: |
Old as the notion of the "New Class" is-and the term was coined by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin around 1870-the idea of the ascendancy of an intellectual elite continues to engage, and perplex, social theorists to this day. In Theories of the New Class, Ivan Szelenyi, one of the most incisive and respected analysts of the intellectual class, and his colleague Lawrence King put New Class theories into a broad historical framework for the first time. Addressing the intellectual history of Marxism and socialism, theories of the increasing role of the state and technocratic elites in capitalism, and theories of contemporary social change, King and Szelenyi's work clearly links the centrality of thinking about intellectual class formation to a variety of theoretical and political projects that have shaped social theory and influenced political realities over the past century. King and Szelenyi show that the idea of the New Class has stubbornly entered and reentered the agenda of critical social theorizing throughout the last century.Indeed, they interpret that the last century as a history of projects by different groups of the highly educated-factions of intellectuals, bureaucrats, technocrats, managers, and the left-wing humanistic intelligentsia-to gain ultimate power. A rare empirical discussion of theory, Theories of the New Class invigorates class theories by grounding them in contemporary issues; at the same time, it uses modern polemics to revitalize historical debates on the origins of capitalism. |
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US |
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University of Minnesota Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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