Planning the American future: Daniel Bell, future research, and the commission on the years 2000
By: Andersson, Jenny
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BookPublisher: Journal of the History of Ideas Description: 82(4), Oct, 2021: p.661-682.Subject(s): Bell Palsy, Health Personnel, Humans, Politics, United States
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Journal of the History of IdeasSummary: This article examines the sociologist Daniel Bell's interest in future research. Future research, to Bell, had as its particular purpose to ensure forms of coordination and steering acceptable to a liberal society. By examining Bell's interest in future research and the activities of the Commission on the Year 2000, the essay proposes that future research played a role in Cold War intellectual history as a particular form of planning for the liberal polity. This idea of planning a liberal society changed decisively, however, between 1965 and 1975. – Reproduced
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This article examines the sociologist Daniel Bell's interest in future research. Future research, to Bell, had as its particular purpose to ensure forms of coordination and steering acceptable to a liberal society. By examining Bell's interest in future research and the activities of the Commission on the Year 2000, the essay proposes that future research played a role in Cold War intellectual history as a particular form of planning for the liberal polity. This idea of planning a liberal society changed decisively, however, between 1965 and 1975. – Reproduced
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