Suggested Further Reading
Alvin W. Gouldner.The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class. New York: Seabury Press, 1978.
Bertrand de Jouvenel. “The Treatment of Capitalism by Continental Intellectuals.” In F. A. Hayek, ed.,Capitalism and the Historians. Chicago, 1954.
Jerrold Siegel.Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830–1930. New York, 1986.
Paul Hollander. “American Intellectuals: Producers and Consumers of Social Criticism.” In Alain G. Gagnon, ed.,Intellectuals in Liberal Democracies, Political Influence and Social Involvement. New York, 1987.
Aron, R.The Opium of the Intellectuals, New Brunswick and London, 2001.
Jean-Françoise Revel.La Grande Parade: Essai sur la survie de l'utopie socialiste, Paris, 2000.
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Alan Kahan is professor of history at Florida International University and is author ofAristocratic Liberalism (1992), reissued by Transaction (2001).
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Kahan, A. Western intellectuals and commercial society. Society 43, 45–52 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687370
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