** 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