ABSTRACT

The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outsider to society. Using detailed case-studies, Pels examines the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.

chapter 1|26 pages

Speaking the spokesperson

chapter 2|22 pages

The proletarian as stranger

chapter 3|32 pages

Speaking for social things

Sociology and socialism in Durkheim, Sorel and Barrès

chapter 4|29 pages

Missionary sociology between left and right

Karl Mannheim and the right-wing challenge

chapter 5|21 pages

The dark side of socialism

Hendrik de Man and the fascist temptation

chapter 6|25 pages

Treason of the intellectuals

Paul de Man and Hendrik de Man

chapter 7|20 pages

Strange standpoints

chapter 8|17 pages

Privileged nomads