The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

by Bell, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780465014996
• ISBN10: 0465014992
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-17
• Publisher: Basic Books

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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