The End of Ideology
Subtitle: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"
Edition: 2New Ed edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780674004269
Subjects: Political ideologies; Political science & theory; Sociology, Social Studies; Social conditions; Social History; Social Science; Sociology; United States; Sociology - Social Theory; History & Theory - General; Social Science / General; Sociology - General; 1945-; Economic conditions; Social classes
Description: "The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded even as a classic since its first publication in 1960. 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.

In an essay new to the 2000 edition, he argues that with the end of communism, we are seeing a resumption of history, a lifting of the heavy ideological blanket and the return of traditional ethnic and religious conflicts in the many regions of the former socialist states and elsewhere.

Indeed, he argues that as the world undergoes greater economic integration, it is also experiencing great political fragmentation, as people retreat to more primordial units for the purposes of self-identity."--BOOK JACKET.