Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics

250 Pages·2007·1.747 MB·English

by  David Bates (eds.)

Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics
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Marxism, Intellectuals
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Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics 1
David Bates
Part I
1 Marx and Intellectuals 21
Paul Blackledge
2 Lenin, Trotsky and the Role of the Socialist
Intellectual in Politics 43
Ian D. Thatcher
3 Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince versus Passive
Revolution 68
Peter Thomas
4 ‘Unhappy Consciousness’: Reflexivity and
Contradiction in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Changing
Conception of the Role of the Intellectual 86
Leon Culbertson
5 Althusser: Intellectuals and the Conjuncture 107
Warren Montag
6 T. W. Adorno as a Critical Intellectual in the
Public Sphere: Between Marxism and Modernism 119
Gerard Delanty
Part II
7 Analytical Marxism and the Academy 137
Jason Edwards
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8 Philosophy and Ideology: Marxism and the
Role of Religion in Contemporary Politics 152
Sean Sayers
9 Intellectual Labour and Social Class 169
David Bates
10 Critical Intellectuals and the Academic Labour Process 186
Frank Worthington
11 Mediated Intellectuals: Negotiating Social Relations
in Media 205
Lee Salter
12 Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive
Intellectual 221
Jayne Raisborough and Dawn S. Jones
Index 238
List of Contributors
David Bates is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Canterbury Christ
Church University, and Programme Director in Politics. His research
explores contemporary and classical Marxism, the sociology of class, the
sociology of knowledge and the political economy of intellectual labour.
Paul Blackledge is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Leeds Metropolitan
University. He is author of Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History
(Manchester University Press, 2006) and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the
New Left(Merlin Press, 2004). He is the co-editor of Historical Materialism
and Social Evolution (Palgrave, 2002) and Alisdair MacIntyre’s Engagement
with Marxism: Essays and Articles 1953–1974(Leiden, 2007). He serves on
the editorial boards of Historical Materialismand International Socialism.
Leon Culbertson is Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Sport at Edge
Hill College. He studied at the University of Brighton, writing his
doctoral thesis on Jean-Paul Sartre’s dialectical conception of the histor-
ical event. His major interests are in the philosophy of Sartre, phenom-
enology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and
the philosophy of sport. His publications include articles on Sartre’s
progressive-regressive method, bad faith and moral responsibility in
self-deception.
Gerard Delantyis Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool.
He is editor of the Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory
(Routledge, 2006),T.W. Adorno, 4 Volumes, Masters of Modern Thought
Series (Sage, 2004), author of Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the
Implications of Globalisation(Routledge, 2005) and co-author (with Chris
Rumsford) of Community(Routledge, 2003).
Jason Edwards is Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck College, London. His
Ph.D thesis was on analytical Marxism. He is completing a book, The
Radical Attitude and the Modern State. His current research interests focus
on the concepts of the state and politics in early modern political theory.
Dawn S. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Liverpool Hope
University. Her research focuses on the relationship between discourse,
perception, and reality. Her recent publications have explored the rela-
tion between expert knowledge and risk perception. She is currently
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researching women’s perception of risk in pregnancy, with findings
published in I. Wilkinson and S. A. Peterson’s Risk, Health and
Vulderability (2006) and J. Raisborough and J. Scott (eds.) Risk, Identity
and the Everyday(forthcoming).
Warren Montag is Professor of English and Comparative Literary
Studies at Occidental College, Los Angeles. His areas of research include
the Restoration and eighteenth-century British Literature, the
Enlightenment, and twentieth-century French philosophy. He has pub-
lished numerous books on philosophy and literature, including Louis
Althusser(Palgrave, 2003).
Jayne Raisborough is Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social
Sciences at the University of Brighton. Her research interests gravitate
around the discursive and material conditions of identity construction.
Her recent work has focussed on serious leisure, auto/biography, femi-
nist debates around cosmetic surgery and ethical consumption. She is
currently working on an edited collection entitled Risk, Identity and the
Everyday, with Julie Scott of Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lee Salteris Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, in the School of
Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. He writes on
issues of media, the information age and politics.
Sean Sayersis Professor in Philosophy at the University of Kent. A member
of the editorial board of the journal Radical Philosophy, he has written
extensively on Marx and Hegel. His published work includes Marxism
and Human Nature (Routledge, 1999), Plato’s Republic: An Introduction
(Edinburgh University Press, 1998), Socialism and Democracy (co-edited
with David McLellan) (Macmillan, 1991), Reality and Reason: Dialectic
and the Theory of Knowledge(Basil Blackwell, 1985), and Marx, Hegel and
Dialectic(with Richard Norman) (The Harvester Press, 1980).
Ian D. Thatcher is Reader in Modern European History at Brunel
University. His latest books are Trotsky (2003) and Late Imperial Russia:
Problems and Prospects (2005). He has also published in numerous
international journals, including: History, the Historical Journal, Historical
Researchand English Historical Review.
Peter Thomas studied at the University of Queensland, Australia, Freie
Universitäet, Berlin, and Università Federico II in Naples. He is a member of
the editorial board of Historical Materialism, the author of articles on Gramsci,
Althusser, Spinoza, Young Marx and critical realism, and the translator of
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numerous articles on political theory. His book The Gramscian Momentis
due out in the Historical Materialismbook series in 2007.
Frank Worthington is a Lecturer in Management at the University of
Liverpool Management School. He has a specialist interest in labour
process studies, critical management theory and the politics of work
organisation. He has conducted research into the politics of change
management in large-scale manufacturing organisations in the United
Kingdom and the United States, and is currently conducting research
into the politics of organisational ‘culture change’ in public sector
organisations, including the NHS.