Een luchtkasteel voor logocraten: Nieuw Babylon en de jaren zestig in Nederland

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Although James C. Kennedy's culture-historical analyses of the 1960s in the Netherlands in Nieuw Babylon in aanbouw: Nederland in de jaren zestig ([Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the Sixties] 1995) & "New Babylon and the Politics of Modernity" (1997) are considered valid, a few corrections in his understanding of the interaction between various Dutch elites & different generations are deemed necessary. A distinction is made between technocratic (ie, functionalist) & logocratic (ie, communication-oriented) elites, noting that the influence of generally more progressive logocrats reached an all-time high in the second half of the 1960s & the early 1970s. It is argued that the logocratic discourse of democratization & modernization, which attracted many members of the younger generation, contributed significantly to the ideology ot the 1960s, & that the reemergence of the technocrats after 1970 signaled the end of the cultural revolution. 1 Table, 49 References. Adapted from the source document.