"One of our most original social thinkers," according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows,... Læs mere
This text was first published in 1975, after the resignation of President Nixon. It argues that the political community in the West had broken down and that the West had entered "a... Læs mere
The University of California at Berkeley is today best known as a great research center and popularly remembered as a locus of campus unrest in the 1960s
The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us
The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development
The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development
The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community