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Book SynopsisIn Defining the Age, Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished contributors to consider how Daniel Bell's ideas captured their historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into today's world.
Trade ReviewDefining the Age captures like no other book on Daniel Bell the range of his interests, the reach of his learning, and the drama of the historical moment in which he lived. Anyone interested in Bell and modern social theory will have to read this book. -- Mark Lilla, author of
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity PoliticsThere is much of value in the essays, whose subject richly deserves such close attention. * National Review *
The contributions of the volume offer an enlightening exploration of [Bell's] ideas in their historical context and an original attempt to revisit his insights for
our time. * S-USIH Blog *
Excellent for graduate level courses on contemporary social theory....Highly recommended. * Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
Part I. Overview1. Remembering Daniel Bell: Two Perspectives, by David A. Bell
2. Daniel Bell’s Three-Dimensional Puzzle, by Paul Starr
Part II. Politics and Ideology3. Of But Not in the Left: Daniel Bell on Radical Politics, by Michael Kazin
4. Daniel Bell and the Radical Right, by Julian E. Zelizer
5.
The End of Ideology, the Long Nineties, and the History of the Present, by Jan-Werner Müller
Part III. The Post-Industrial Transformation6. “Post-Industrial” versus “Neoliberal”: Rival Definitions of Our Age, by Paul Starr
7. Assessing Daniel Bell in the Age of Big Tech, by Margaret O’Mara
8. The Post-Industrial University as We Know It: Daniel Bell’s Vision, Today’s Realities, by Steven Brint
9. Daniel Bell, Social Forecaster, by Jenny Andersson
Part IV. Capitalism, Culture, and the Public Household10. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Then and Now, by Fred Turner
11. The Double Bind: Daniel Bell, the Public Household, and Financialization, by Stefan Eich
List of Contributors
Index
