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9781403949981 English 1403949980 Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics throws important new light on some long-standing debates, as well as addressing a range of contemporary themes. What challenges have contemporary social and philosophical developments presented for Marxism? How extensive are the prospects for emancipatory change in capitalist societies? More specifically, what ought the political role of the intellectual to be? How have Marxist approaches contributed to understanding the intellectual's role? Addressing these questions, and many more, this text contains chapters on Marx's conception of the intellectuals, as well as on those arguments advanced in the writings of Lenin and Trotsky, Gramsci, Adorno, Sartre, Analytical Marxism and Post-Marxism. The text also contains thematic chapters exploring such issues as the role of the critical Marxist intellectual in contemporary media, the challenge posed by feminism to the Marxist view of the intellectual, intellectual labour, exploitation and class analysis, and the very nature of intellectual critique itself. Book jacket., What ought the political role of the intellectual to be? What challenges does the post-structuralist project present for Marxist accounts of the intellectual? This text, which includes important contributions from authors such as Montag and Sayers, considers different attempts by Marxist and post-Marxist writers to theorize these questions.
9781403949981 English 1403949980 Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics throws important new light on some long-standing debates, as well as addressing a range of contemporary themes. What challenges have contemporary social and philosophical developments presented for Marxism? How extensive are the prospects for emancipatory change in capitalist societies? More specifically, what ought the political role of the intellectual to be? How have Marxist approaches contributed to understanding the intellectual's role? Addressing these questions, and many more, this text contains chapters on Marx's conception of the intellectuals, as well as on those arguments advanced in the writings of Lenin and Trotsky, Gramsci, Adorno, Sartre, Analytical Marxism and Post-Marxism. The text also contains thematic chapters exploring such issues as the role of the critical Marxist intellectual in contemporary media, the challenge posed by feminism to the Marxist view of the intellectual, intellectual labour, exploitation and class analysis, and the very nature of intellectual critique itself. Book jacket., What ought the political role of the intellectual to be? What challenges does the post-structuralist project present for Marxist accounts of the intellectual? This text, which includes important contributions from authors such as Montag and Sayers, considers different attempts by Marxist and post-Marxist writers to theorize these questions.