Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics

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.

"Marxism, Intellectuals, Politics is a significant collection of essays, not only as a reflection on the relation of theory and practice, but also as a possible signpost for contemporary left." -Bogdana Koljevic, The New School

Autorentext
PAUL BLACKLEDGE Senior Lecturer, School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK LEON CULBERTSON Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Sport, Edge Hill College, Lancashire, UK GERARD DELANTY Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK JASON EDWARDS Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck College, London, UK DAWN S. JONES Department of Sociology, Liverpool Hope University, UK WARREN MONTAG Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA JAYNE RAISBOROUGH Teaches at the University of Brighton, UK LEE SALTER Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK SEAN SAYERS Professor in Philosophy, University of Kent, UK IAN D. THATCHER Reader in Modern European History, Brunel University, UK PETER THOMAS Member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism FRANK WORTHINGTON Lecturer in Management, University of Liverpool Management School, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics; D.Bates Marx and Intellectuals; P.Blackledge Lenin, Trotsky and the Role of the Socialist Intellectual in Politics; I.D.Thatcher Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution; P.Thomas "Unhappy Consciousness": Reflexivity and Contradiction in Jean-Paul Sartre's Changing Conception of the Role of the Intellectual; L.Cuthbertson Althusser: Intellectuals and the Conjuncture; W.Montag T.W. Adorno as a Critical Intellectual in the Public Sphere: Between Marxism and Modernism; G.Delanty Analytical Marxism and the Academy; J.Edwards Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics; S.Sayers Intellectual Labour and Social Class; D.Bates Critical Intellectuals and the Academic Labour Process; F.Worthington Mediated Intellectuals: Negotiating Social Relations in Media; L.Salter Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive Intellectual; J.Raisborough & D.S.Jones