Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity

This book explores the role of intellectuals in politics and social change from traditional society to the present. Its theoretical structure is based upon six distinct types of intellectual activity. The rise and decline of specific types is analyzed in the historical context of industrialization, technological change, shifting social forces, and the emergence of popular movements.

About the author

Carl Boggs is Professor of Social Sciences at National University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Gramsci's Marxism; The Politics of Eurocommunism (with David Plotke); The Impasse of European Communism; The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Crisis of Western Marxism; and Social Movements and Political Power.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Boggs
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.1993
• EAN: 9780791415436
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1543-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Suny Series, the Body in Cultu; Suny Series, the Body in Cultu; Suny Radical Social and Politi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education