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Intellectual as Stranger

Studies in Spokespersonship

Intellectual as Stranger
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The Intellectual as Stranger explores the venerable conjunction between the images of the intellectual and those of the stranger in the history of social and political thought. Dick Pel's social epistemology of strangerhood critically builds upon the classical theories of Marx, Simmel and Manheim, as well as registering the contribution of feminist and postcolonial critiques and of the postmodernist sociology of cultural 'nomadism'. He uses detailed case studies to examine the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man, and explores questions such as whether one does see more clearly from the margins, whether the outsider is privileged with a deeper or more comprehensive view, and in what sense the outsider is able to speak for a larger social reality.
Routledge; December 2000
304 pages; ISBN 9780203459287
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