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Theories of the New Class
King, Lawrence Peter; Szelenyi, Ivan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about intellectual class formation to social theory
Old as the notion of the “New Class” is (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. In Theories of the New Class, Iván Szelényi, 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 ... Read moreKing and Szelényi 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. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643448
SKU
V9780816643448
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About King, Lawrence Peter; Szelenyi, Ivan
Iván Szelényi is William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology and professor of political science at Yale University. He is the author or coauthor of Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (1979), Urban Social Inequalities (1983), Socialist Entrepreneurs (1988), and Making Capitalism without Capitalists (1998).
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