The Intellectual as Stranger: Studies in Spokespersonship (Routledge Studies in Social and Politicalthought)

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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.

Author(s): Dick Pels
Edition: 1
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 304

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Speaking the spokesperson......Page 22
The proletarian as stranger......Page 48
Speaking for social things: sociology and socialism in Durkheim, Sorel and Barrs......Page 70
Missionary sociology between left and right: Karl Mannheim and the right-wing challenge......Page 102
The dark side of socialism: Hendrik de Man and the fascist temptation......Page 131
Treason of the intellectuals: Paul de Man and Hendrik de Man......Page 152
Strange standpoints......Page 177
Privileged nomads......Page 197
Towards a social epistemology of strangerhood......Page 214
Notes......Page 249
Bibliography......Page 282
Index......Page 300