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Defining the Age

Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours
  • Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
  • With contributions by: Jenny Andersson , David A. Bell , Steven Brint , Stefan Eich , Michael Kazin , Jan-Werner Muller , Margaret O'Mara and Fred Turner
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished contributors to consider how Daniel Bell’s ideas captured their historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into today’s world.

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Paul Starr is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, founding coeditor of The American Prospect, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history. His most recent book is Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies (2019).

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.

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Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics:
Defining the Age captures like no other book on Daniel Bell the range of his interests, the reach of his learning, and the drama of the historical moment in which he lived. Anyone interested in Bell and modern social theory will have to read this book.


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Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
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PART I. OVERVIEW

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PART II. POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY

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Julian E. Zelizer
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PART III. THE POST-INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION

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Margaret O’Mara
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Steven Brint
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Jenny Andersson
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PART IV. CAPITALISM, CULTURE, AND THE PUBLIC HOUSEHOLD

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Stefan Eich
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