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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784108003321

Autore

King Lawrence P

Titolo

Theories of the New Class : intellectuals and power / / Lawrence Peter King and Iván Szelényi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

0-8166-9591-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xxxiv, 268 pages)

Collana

Contradictions

Altri autori (Persone)

SzelényiIván

Disciplina

335.4/11

Soggetti

Communism and intellectuals

Power (Social sciences)

Socialism

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. 253-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Intellectuals and the End of History; 1. Proto-Theories of the New Class: Hegel, Saint-Simon, and Marx; 2. The Vanguard Project; 3. A Bureaucratic Class in Soviet-Type Society; 4. Beyond Bureaucratic Power: Humanistic Intellectuals and Technocrats under State Socialism; 5. The Fall of the Class Project of the Socialist Reform Intelligentsia; 6. Intellectuals under Postcommunism; 7. Bourgeois and Post-Marxist Theories of the New Class in the West; 8. The Neo-Marxist Response to Bourgeois Theories of the New Class; 9. The Limits of the New Class Project in the West; Conclusion: The ""Third Way"" as the Fourth Wave of New Class Projects?; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Theories of the New Class, Iván Szelényi, one of the most incisive and respected analysts of the intellectual class, and Lawrence King put New Class theories into a broad historical framework for the first time. This book grounds class theories in contemporary issues, and uses modern polemics to revitalize historical debates on the origins of capitalism.