Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about intellectual class formation to social theory Old as the notion of the "New Class" is (the term was coined by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin around 1870), the idea of the ascendancy of an intellectual elite continues to engage, and perplex, social theorists. In Theories of the New Class, Iv n Szel nyi, one of the most incisive and respected analysts of the intellectual class,...