Volume 23, Number 11 · June 24, 1976
Trouble in Freedonia
By Richard Wollheim
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
by Daniel Bell
Basic Books, 301 pp., $12.95
To the tardy reviewer each new notice that comes his way may offer a temptation to revise his estimate, up or down. Keeping up with the critical acclaim that has greeted Professor Daniel Bell's The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, I have had to ask myself, over and over again, what it is that anesthetized me to the various merits that writers of intelligence and reputation have found to praise in it. Or is it that, though the appearance of the book happened to catch me out at the start of a busy term, there has been something singularly opportune about its timing? Rereading the book I failed to find answers to these questions.
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