Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era". His three best known works are The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976).
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Lower East Side
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityCity College of New YorkSt Antony's College
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences🏆 doctor honoris causa of Keiō University
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Theda Skocpol📖 Paul Starr
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Trending topics shown first"Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme."
"If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?"
"Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent."
"When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition."
"Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon."
"No one "voted in" the market economy and the industrial revolution, but today issues of direction of the economy, costs, redress, priorities, and goals all have become matters of conscious and debated…"
"It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself in the aggregate becomes a nightmare."
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