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Property.and.Power.in.Social.Theory.A.Study.in.Intellectual.Rivalry.eBook-EEn
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PROPERTY AND POWER IN
SOCIAL THEORY
In social and political theories of class inequality and stratification property
and power perform a key role. However, theorists have yet to clearly define
these concepts, their mutual boundaries and their scopes of application.
Moreover, a ‘primacy puzzle’ remains unsolved: is power ultimately dependent
upon property, or property upon power? Which is primary, which derivative?
Dick Pels seeks answers to the property/power puzzle by undertaking a
broad historical inquiry into its intellectual origins and present-day effects.
He re-examines the increasingly misleading terms of the debate between
property and power by placing the traditional controversy within the
framework of intellectual rivalry. He traces the intricate pattern of rivalry
between the two concepts through a series of case studies, including:
• Marxism vs. anarchism
• the fascist assertion of the primacy of the political
• social science as power theory
• the managerial revolution
• the knowledge society and the new intellectual classes
Having examined knowledge as property-and-power, Pels elaborates a radical
and reflexive theory of intellectual rivalry.
Property and Power in Social Theory unravels the dialectics of social-scientific
dichotomies and provides a novel and informative way of organizing
twentieth-century social theory. This work makes a valuable contribution to
sociological theory and to the history of thought.
Dick Pels is Professor of the Social Theory of Knowledge in the Faculty of
Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He is also scholar in residence at
the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.
CONTENTS
List of illustrations
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction: the problem of intellectual rivalry
1
1 The liberal dichotomy and its dissolution
18
2 Inside the diamond: rivalry and reduction
47
3 Marxism vs. anarchism
74
4 Fascism and the primacy of the political
101
5 Social science as power theory
126
6 Power, property, and managerialism
164
7 Intellectual closure and the New Class
192
8 Towards a theory of intellectual rivalry
225
Notes
260
Bibliography
287
Index
311
v
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES
1 The diamond pattern
4
2 The fissure
23
3 The diamond pattern: from domain to disposition
37
4 Vocabulary switches
48
5 The fissure of sovereignty and property
52
6 System closure and property regimes
183
7 Theories of the knowledge society
198
8 The spectrum of cultural resources
223
9 Rivalry within the diamond pattern
247
10 The reflexive diamond
259
TABLES
1 Static and dynamic theories of property and power
22
2 The field of the grand narratives
74
3 Positive and negative theories of property and power
267
vii

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