The end of ideology : on the exhaustion of political ideas in the fifties /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Free Press ; Collier-Macmillan, [1965, ©1962]
New York : Free Press, [1965]
Edition:Revised edition.
Series:A Free Press paperback
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the restless vanity
  • America as a mass society: a critique
  • The breakup of family capitalism: on changes in class in America
  • Is there a ruling class in America? The power elite reconsidered
  • The prospects of American capitalism: on Keynes, Schumpeter, and Galbraith
  • The refractions of the American post: on the question of national character
  • Status politics and new anxieties: on the radical right and ideologies of the fifties
  • Crime as an American way of life: a queer ladder of social mobility
  • The myth of crime waves: the actual decline of crime in the United States
  • The racket-ridden longshoremen: the web of economics and politics
  • The capitalism of the proletariat: a theory of American trade-unionism
  • Work and its discontents: the cult of efficiency in America
  • The failure of American socialism: the tension of ethics and politics
  • The mood of three generations: The once-born, the twice born, and the after-born ; The loss of innocence in the thirties ; Politics in the forties ; Dissent in the fifties
  • Ten theories in search of reality: the prediction of Soviet behavior
  • 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.