The End of Ideology

"The End of Ideology" has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies derived from the 19th and early 20th centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise. In a new introduction to the year 2000 edition, he argues that with the end of communism, we are seeing a resumption of history, a lifting of the heavy ideological blanket and the return of traditional ethnic and religious conflicts in the many regions of the former socialist states and elsewhere.

ISBN	0674004264	Pages	518
ISBN13	9780674004269 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Harvard University Press	Weight (grammes)	566
Imprint	Harvard University Press	Published in	Cambridge, Mass
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	202
Publication date	20 Nov 2000	Width (mm)	131
Library of Congress	00057523	Spine width (mm)	33
DEWEY	306.2	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY edition	DC21

	The Resumption of History in the New Century
	Introduction: The Restless Vanity	13
1	America as a Mass Society: A Critique	21
2	The Breakup of Family Capitalism: On Changes in Class in America	39
3	Is There a Ruling Class in America? The Power Elite Reconsidered	47
4	The Prospects of American Capitalism: On Keynes, Schumpeter, and Galbraith	75
5	The Refractions of the American Past: On the Question of National Character	95
6	Status Politics and New Anxieties: On the "Radical Right" and Ideologies of the Fifties	103
7	Crime as an American Way of Life: A Queer Ladder of Social Mobility	127
8	The Myth of Crime Waves: The Actual Decline of Crime in the United States	151
9	The Racket-Ridden Longshoremen: The Web of Economics and Politics	175
10	The Capitalism of the Proletariat: A Theory of American Trade-Unionism	211
11	Work and its Discontents: The Cult of Efficiency in America	227
12	The Failure of American Socialism: The Tension of Ethics and Politics	275
13	The Mood of Three Generations	299
A	The Once-Born, the Twice-Born, and the After-Born
B	The Loss of Innocence in the Thirties
C	Politics in the Forties
D	Dissent in the Fifties
14	Ten Theories in Search of Reality: The Prediction of Soviet Behavior	315
15	Two Roads from Marx: The Themes of Alienation and Exploitation and Workers' Control in Socialist Thought	355
	The End of Ideology in the West: An Epilogue	393
	Afterword, 1988: The End of Ideology Revisited	409
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Originally published in 1960, this collection of essays focuses on the protean nature of American society and the decay of Marxism and other systematic ideologies in the West...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [has] admired the book's 'unflagging confidence, trenchancy, and authority.' -- Scott Veale New York Times Book Review 20001231

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