The incoherence of the intellectual

INTRODUCTION
	Man as History‑Maker
One: The Search for Radical Strategy 1939‑1948
	Political Commitment and a Definition of Strategy
	Elements for a Retreat from Political Commitment
	The Powerless Intellectual
	A Radical Strategy and a Liberating Agency of Change
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Two: The Mindless Years 1950‑1956
	The Cheerful Robot and the Rift between Thought and Action
	Intellectual Default and Escape into Academic Cynicism
	Rejection of Crackpot Realism and Academic Incoherence
Three:The Intellectual as Historical Agency of Change 1958‑1962
	The Showdown between Idiocy and Coherence
	The Whole Man as Promethean History‑Maker
	The Intellectual as Revolutionary
	An Ambiguous Retreat and an Incomplete Task