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Daniel Bell, né le 10 mai 1919 dans le Lower East Side à New York et mort le 25 janvier 2011 à Cambridge au Massachusetts, est un sociologue et essayiste américain.

Professeur émérite à l'université Harvard , il a aussi enseigné la sociologie à l'université Columbia. Ses nombreux livres et articles, notamment dans les revues The Public Interest, Fortune et The New Leader, en font une figure majeure de la sociologie américaine de l’après-guerre. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. mai 1919 – 25. janvier 2011
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“Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 244
Contexte: Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.

“When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 90

“Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 4, Toward the Great Instauration, p. 146

“No one can buy his share of "clean air" in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 196

“If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 131

“What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e. g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 274

“Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 95

“The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of all problems for the sociologist.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 1, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. 33

“Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Introduction, The Disjunction of Realms, p. 13
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

“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.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Introduction, The Disjunction of Realms, p. 4
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

“The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 134

“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 social policy.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 226

“It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Introduction, The Disjunction of Realms, p. 21
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

“That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Foreword: 1978, p. xi
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

“The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 191

“The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 197

“Where religions fail, cults appear.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 4, Toward the Great Instauration, p. 168

“Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul."”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Foreword: 1978, p. xxix
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

“Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 124

“It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 223

“The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 198

“Crime is a form of "unorganized" class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 189

“Television, as the most "public" of media, has its limits.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 108

“The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.”

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Daniel Bell livre The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 1, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. 78

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