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Record Nr.

UNINA9910171008803321

Autore

Pels Dick <1948->

Titolo

The intellectual as stranger : studies in spokespersonship / / Dick Pels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-62597-9

1-280-31748-5

0-203-45928-8

0-203-25551-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 30

Disciplina

305.5/52/09

Soggetti

Intellectuals - History

Intellectual life - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.