Making history and making theory : notes on how intellectuals seek relevance / Dick Flacks -- The three waves of new class theories and a postscript / Ivan Szelenyi and Bill Martin -- Learning from feminism : social theory and intellectual vitality / Roslyn Wallach Bologh -- French intellectuals from Sartre to soft ideology / George Ross -- Political intellectuals in the Third World : the Caribbean case / Alex Dupuy -- Eastern Europe's lessons for critical intellectuals / Michael D. Kennedy -- The ideology of intellectuals and the Chinese student protest movement of 1989 / Craig Calhoun -- Ideology and ocularcentrism : is there anything behind the mirror's tain? / Martin Jay -- Bringing democracy back in : universalistic solidarity and the civil sphere / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The politics of theory and the limits of academy / Charles C. Lemert
Analysis
Politics Role of Intellectuals
Politics Role of Intellectuals
Notes
Most of the essays were originally presented at a colloquium sponsored by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 1989