Theories of the New Class : intellectuals and power /

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...

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Main Authors: King, Lawrence P. (Author), Szelényi, Iván (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816695911
0816695911
0816643431
9780816643431
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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?