Planning the American Future
Daniel Bell, Future Research, and the Commission on the Year 2000
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5306246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Andersson (0000-0001-7766-9827) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 661-682 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2021.0037 |
| PMID | 34840193 |
| OpenAlex | W3214877100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Cold war · Commission · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |