Named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962.
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 a new introduction to the year 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.
- ISBN10 0674252306
- ISBN13 9780674252301
- Publish Date 31 December 1988 (first published 28 April 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English