{"product_id":"the-end-of-ideology-9780674004269","title":"The End of Ideology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e 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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very polished book. The overall argument on the relationship of declining religious and rising national feeling is highly appropriate and particularly significant. Bell is obviously completely conversant with recent work by Habermas, Chartier, Gordon, Baker, and Crow, to name but a few authors whose findings he weaves into his own purpose. I was also taken with his thought on the relationship between national feeling in France and the awareness of France's changing place in the world, and with that, of Britain's surprisingly swift advance from 1688 to the middle decades of the eighteenth century. His pages on 'Great Men' as the vehicles of national sentiment are likewise very thoughtful. -- Patrice Higonnet, author of \u003ci\u003eGoodness Beyond Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for earlier editions:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the most influential, most controversial, and most misunderstood books about the 1950s. But it is not simply a central text of the intellectual history of those years (although it certainly is that). It is also a provocative discussion by one of America's most creative thinkers of political and philosophical issues that concern us still.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alan Brinkley\u003cbr\u003eNo one could consider himself politically literate without an intimate knowledge of the issues foreseen in \u003ci\u003eThe End of Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e. -- Theodore Draper\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Resumption of History in the New Century   Introduction: The Restless Vanity    PART 1: AMERICA: THE AMBIGUITIES OF THEORY    1. America as a Mass Society: A Critique   2. The Breakup of Family Capitalism: On Changes in Class in America   3. Is There a Ruling Class in America? The Power Elite Reconsidered   4. The Prospects of American Capitalism: On Keynes, Schumpeter and Gaibraith   5. The Refractions of the American Past: On the Question of National Character   6. Status Politics and New Anxieties: On the \"Radical Right\" and Ideologies of the Fifties    PART 2: AMERICA: THE COMPLEXITIES OF LIFE     7. Crime as an American Way of Life: A Queer Ladder of Social Mobility   8. The Myth of Crime Waves: The Actual Decline of Crime in the United States   9. The Racket-Ridden Longshoremen: The Web of Economics and Politics   10. The Capitalism of the Proletariat: A Theory of American Trade-Unionism   11. Work and its Discontents: The Cult of Efficiency in America    PART 3: THE EXHAUSTION OF UTOPIA    12. The Failure of American Socialism: The Tension of Ethics and Politics   13. The Mood of Three Generations:    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   15. Two Roads from Marx: The Themes of Alienation and Exploitation and Workers' Control in Socialist Thought    The End of Ideology in the West: An Epilogue   Afterword, 1988: The End of Ideology Revisited   Acknowledgment   Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037256122711,"sku":"9780674004269","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674004269.jpg?v=1750935017","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-ideology-9780674004269","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}