"The Winding Passage : Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980" Daniel Bell (Abt Books, 1980)
this book brings together most of Daniel Bell's best work in his second career as a sociologist.
The essays deal with a diverse range of topics including technology and culture, religion and personal identity, the intellectual and society, and the validity of the concept of class.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Techne and Themis
Technology, Nature, and Society: The Vicissitudes of Three World Views and the Confusion of Realms
Teletext and Technology: New Networks of Knowledge and Information in Postindustrial Society
Part II. Prophets of Utopia
Veblen and the Technocrats: On The Engineers and the Price System
Charles Fourier: Prophet of Eupsychia
The Once and Future Marx *
Part III. The Intellectuals and “The New Class”
The “Intelligentsia” in American Society
Vulgar Sociology: On C. Wright Mills and the “Letter to the New Left”
The New Class: A Muddled Concept
Part IV. Directions of Social Change
National Character Revisited: A Proposal for Renegotiating the Concept
Ethnicity and Social Change
The Future World Disorder: The Structural Context of Crises
Liberalism in the Postindustrial Society
The End of American Exceptionalism
Part V. Culture and Beliefs
Beyond Modernism, Beyond Self
The Alphabet of Justice On: “Eiehmann in Jerusalem”
Reflections on Jewish Identity: The Risks of Memory
The Return of the Sacred? The Argument on the Future of Religion