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Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age
A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thought Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been ov...
Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about Chinaโs political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the Scho...
Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their cus...
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Essay examining the concept of efficiency in industry, the impact of automation, etc., and expounding the inadequacy of the human relations approach t...
On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"
Indeed, he argues that as the world undergoes greater economic integration, it is also experiencing great political fragmentation, as people retreat t...
Political Thinking for an East Asian Context
Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style libe...
Sociological Essays and Journeys
This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and persona...
Organizing his work thematically to explore important ideas and trends that have influenced the social sciences since World War II, Daniel Bell charts...
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" demo...
Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for ...
First published in 1952 then out of print in recent years, this classic account of the American Left is once again available. In his introduction to t...
The Columbia College Experience in Its National Setting
Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World
A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organ...
The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering--but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based o...
Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980
East Asia and Beyond
In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by exa...
The refusal to cease suffering
Daniel Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged ...
USA. Sociological study of American behaviour and thought - covers mass society and mass media, political leadership, the capitalist regime and work (...
Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identit...
On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
The Columbia Experience in Its National Setting
Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press,1966....
Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia
Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western...
Essays 1960-1980
Topics, Questions and References for an Introductory College Course
Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World
In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Chr...
A Behaviorism of Personality
A Survey of Fundamentals, Topics, Questions, References and Bibliographies for Group-discussion
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