The end of ideology : on the exhaustion of political ideas in the fifties - Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011 (New York (N.Y.) : Free Press, 1962)
The End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies derived from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise.