Property and Power in Social Theory: A Study in Intellectual Rivalry

Dick Pels041518780X, 9780415187800, 9780203068571

Dick Pels undertakes a broad historical inquiry into the intellectual origins and present-day effects of the concepts and roles of power and property. He uses a series of case studies to study competing concepts of proprty from rival theories such as marxism, anarchism and fascism.

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Table of contents :
Front Cover……Page 1
Back Cover……Page 2
TOC……Page 4
Illustrations……Page 5
Preface……Page 6
Introduction – The problem of intellectual rivalry……Page 8
1 – The Liberal Dichotomy and its Dissolution……Page 25
2 – Inside the Diamond – Rivalry and reduction……Page 54
3 – Marxism vs. Anarchism……Page 81
4 – Fascism and the Primacy of the Political……Page 108
5 – Social Science as Power Theory……Page 133
6 – Power, Property, and Managerialism……Page 171
7 – Intellectual Closure and the New Class……Page 199
8 – Towards a Theory of Intellectual Rivalry……Page 232
Notes……Page 267
Bibliography……Page 294
Index……Page 318