The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism (20th Anniversary Edition)
by Bell, DanielEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-10-18
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary
With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalismand the culture it createsharbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratificationa need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order, this provocative manifesto is more relevant than ever.
Author Biography
Daniel Bell is Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University and Scholar-in-Residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Table of Contents
| Foreword: 1978 | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xxx |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxxiii |
| Introduction/ the Disjunction of Realms: a Statement of Themes | p. 3 |
| The Double Bind of Modernity | p. 31 |
| The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism | p. 33 |
| The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse | p. 85 |
| The Sensibility of the Sixties | p. 120 |
| Toward the Great Instauration: Religion and Culture in a Post-Industrial Age | p. 146 |
| The Dilemmas of the Polity | p. 173 |
| An Introductory Note: from the Culture to the Polity | p. 175 |
| Unstable America: Transitory and Permanent Factors in a National Crisis | p. 177 |
| The Public Household: on Fiscal Sociology and the Liberal Society"""" | p. 220 |
| Afterword: 1996 | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 341 |
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