
Defining the Age
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In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished contributors to consider how well Bell's ideas captured their historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into today's world. Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how Bell's writing has informed thinking about subjects such as the history of socialism, the roots of the radical right, the emerging postindustrial society, and the role of the university. The book also examines Bell's intellectual trajectory and distinctive political stance. Calling himself "a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture," he resisted being pigeon-holed, especially as a neoconservative.
Defining the Age features essays from historians Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Michael Kazin, and Margaret O'Mara; sociologist Steven Brint; media scholar Fred Turner; and political theorists Jan-Werner Müller and Stefan Eich. While differing in their judgments, they agree on one premise: Bell's ideas deserve the kind of nuanced and serious attention that they finally receive in this book.
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Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His most recent book is Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement (2021), and he is a political analyst for CNN.com and a contributor to NPR.
Content
Introduction, by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
Part I. Overview
1. Remembering Daniel Bell: Two Perspectives, by David A. Bell
2. Daniel Bell's Three-Dimensional Puzzle, by Paul Starr
Part II. Politics and Ideology
3. Of But Not in the Left: Daniel Bell on Radical Politics, by Michael Kazin
4. Daniel Bell and the Radical Right, by Julian E. Zelizer
5. The End of Ideology, the Long Nineties, and the History of the Present, by Jan-Werner Müller
Part III. The Post-Industrial Transformation
6. "Post-Industrial" versus "Neoliberal": Rival Definitions of Our Age, by Paul Starr
7. Assessing Daniel Bell in the Age of Big Tech, by Margaret O'Mara
8. The Post-Industrial University as We Know It: Daniel Bell's Vision, Today's Realities, by Steven Brint
9. Daniel Bell, Social Forecaster, by Jenny Andersson
Part IV. Capitalism, Culture, and the Public Household
10. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Then and Now, by Fred Turner
11. The Double Bind: Daniel Bell, the Public Household, and Financialization, by Stefan Eich
List of Contributors
Index
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