ABSTRACT
Many themes in "Prophets of Utopia" were taken up in the End of Ideology. "Techne and Themis" extends positions mapped out in The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. Even if the people accept the Greek distinction between a material culture in progress and a moral culture in eternal recurrent cycle, the people still cannot seem to understand the monads. Daniel Bell's abilities with technological literature are unsurpassed, and his sense of the economic context of culture and the cultural texture of stratification is again flawless. Bell strongly attacks holism, the viewing of the world as a series of parts adding up to a teleologically determined whole. Bell's attack on C. Wright Mills in "Vulgar Sociology" is painfully on target. In an age of bubbling optimism and touching faith in the American century, Mills articulated a new pluralistic basis for Leftist thought, a pragmatic vision part of the debates on the Left from which the excitement of the 1960s seemed to flow.
