Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics

   1. Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics

      • David Bates

      Pages 1-18

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Marx and Intellectuals

      • Paul Blackledge

      Pages 21-41

   3. Lenin, Trotsky and the Role of the Socialist Intellectual in Politics

      • Ian D. Thatcher

      Pages 43-67

   4. Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Versus Passive Revolution

      • Peter Thomas

      Pages 68-85

   5. ‘Unhappy Consciousness’: Reflexivity and Contradiction in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Changing Conception of the Role of the Intellectual

      • Leon Culbertson

      Pages 86-106

   6. Althusser: Intellectuals and the Conjuncture

      • Warren Montag

      Pages 107-118

   7. T. W. Adorno as a Critical Intellectual in the Public Sphere: Between Marxism and Modernism

      • Gerard Delanty

      Pages 119-134

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Analytical Marxism and the Academy

      • Jason Edwards

      Pages 137-151

   3. Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics

      • Sean Sayers

      Pages 152-168

   4. Intellectual Labour and Social Class

      • David Bates

      Pages 169-185

   5. Critical Intellectuals and the Academic Labour Process

      • Frank Worthington

      Pages 186-204

   6. Mediated Intellectuals: Negotiating Social Relations in Media

      • Lee Salter

      Pages 205-220

   7. Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive Intellectual

      • Jayne Raisborough, Dawn S. Jones

      Pages 221-237

5. Back Matter

   Pages 238-242

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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.

• feminism
• Karl Marx
• Lenin
• Marxism
• politics
• revolution
• socialism
• Theodor W. Adorno

"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

• Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

  David Bates

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

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