Intellectual As Stranger - Studies in Spokespersonship

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.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Speaking the Spokesperson 2. The Proletarian as Stranger 3. Speaking for Social Things: Sociology and Socalism in Durkheim, Sorrel and Barrés 4. Missionary Sociology between Left and Right: Karl Mannheim and the Rightwing Challenge 5. The Dark Side of Socialism: Hendrik de Man and the Fascist Temptation 6. Treason of the Intellectuals: Paul de Man and Hendrik de Man 7. Strange Standpoints 8. Privileged Nomads 9. Towards a Social Epistemology of Strangerhood

About the author

Dick Pels

Summary

This volume uses detailed case studies to examine the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.

Product details

• Authors: Dick Pels, Pels Dick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415867443
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86744-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought; Routledge Studies in Social an; Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, social and political philosophy, Society and culture: general, Sociology and anthropology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge