The end of ideology; on the exhaustion of political ideas in the fifties.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Glencoe, Ill., Free Press [1960]Description: 416 p. 25 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN57 .B45
Contents:
Introduction: The restless vanity -- I. America: the ambiguities of theory. 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 past: on the question of national character ; Status politics and new anxieties: on the "radical right" and ideologies of the fifties -- II. America: the complexities of life. 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 ; Interest and ideology: on the role of public opinion in industrial disputes ; The capitalism of the proletariat: a theory of American trade-unionism ; Work and its discontents: the cult of efficiency in America -- III. The exhaustion of utopia. The failure of American socialism: the tension of ethics and politics ; The mood of three generations: A. The once-born, the twice-born, and the after-born, B. The loss of innocence in the thirties, C. Politics in the forties, D. 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 in socialist thought -- The end of ideology in the west: an epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The restless vanity -- I. America: the ambiguities of theory. 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 past: on the question of national character ; Status politics and new anxieties: on the "radical right" and ideologies of the fifties -- II. America: the complexities of life. 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 ; Interest and ideology: on the role of public opinion in industrial disputes ; The capitalism of the proletariat: a theory of American trade-unionism ; Work and its discontents: the cult of efficiency in America -- III. The exhaustion of utopia. The failure of American socialism: the tension of ethics and politics ; The mood of three generations: A. The once-born, the twice-born, and the after-born, B. The loss of innocence in the thirties, C. Politics in the forties, D. 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 in socialist thought -- The end of ideology in the west: an epilogue.