Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxxiv, 363 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. "Since its original publication in 1976, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism has been hailed as an intellectual tour de force that redefines how we think about the relationship among econmomics, culture, and social change. Daniel Bell, the author of such other modern classics as The End of Ideology and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, argues that the unbounded drive of modern capitalism undermines the moral foundations of the original Protestant ethic that ushered in capitalism itself. In a major new afterword, Bell offers a bracing perspective on contemporary Western society, from the end of the Cold War to the rise and fall of postmodernism, revealing the crucial cultural fault lines we face as the twenty-first century approaches."--Jacket.

Subject

1. United States
2. United States > Social conditions > 1945-
3. Social conditions
4. Civilization
5. Capitalism
6. Since 1945
7. Technology and civilization
8. United States > Civilization > 1945-

Contents

1. The Cultural contradictions of capitalism -- The Disjunctions of cultural discourse -- The Sensibility of the sixties -- Toward the great instauration: religion and culture in a post-industrial age -- Unstable America: transitory and permanent factors in a national crisis -- The Public household: on "fiscal sociology" and the liberal society.

Call number

1. JBD 99-431

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011.

Title

1. The cultural contradictions of capitalism / Daniel Bell.

Imprint

1. New York : Basic Books, [1996]

Edition

1. 20th anniversary ed. / with a new afterword by the author.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Contributor biographical information
2. Publisher description

Chronological term

1. Since 1945

LCCN

1. 96041616

ISBN

1. 0465014992
2. 9780465014996

Research call number

1. JBD 99-431