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| '''''The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom''''' (1953) is a book by [[Robert Nisbet]]. It claimed that modern social science's [[individualism]] denied an important human drive toward community as it left people without the aid of their fellows to combat the centralizing power of the [[nation-state]]. ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' columnist [[Ross Douthat]] called it "arguably the 20th century's most important work of conservative sociology." | '''''The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom''''' (1953) is a book by [[Robert Nisbet]]. It claimed that modern social science's [[individualism]] denied an important human drive toward community as it left people without the aid of their fellows to combat the centralizing power of the [[nation-state]]. ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' columnist [[Ross Douthat]] called it "arguably the 20th century's most important work of conservative sociology." | ||
| - | Nisbet began his career as a leftist but later confessed a conversion to a philosophical conservatism. While he consistently described himself as a conservative, he also "famously defended abortion rights | + | Nisbet challenged conventional sociological theories about progress and modernity, insisting on the negative consequences of the loss of traditional forms of community, a process that he believed was greatly accelerated by [[World War I]]. |
| - | and publicly attacked the foreign policy of President Ronald Reagan." | + | |
| - | He was a contributor to ''[[Chronicles (magazine)|Chronicles]]''. He was especially concerned with tracing the history and impact of the [[Idea of Progress]]. He challenged conventional sociological theories about progress and modernity, insisting on the negative consequences of the loss of traditional forms of community, a process that he believed was greatly accelerated by [[World War I]]. According to British sociologist Daniel Chernilo, for Nisbet, "The sociological interest in the formation of modern society lies in whether and how it can re-invigorate forms of communal life and, if not, in understanding what will be the consequences of such failure." Nisbet, thus, "inverts what had been until then the mainstream proposition that society was more important, both historically and normatively, than community." Chernilo also critically observed that Nisbet's "argument on the Great War [World War I] that marks the transition from community to society offers a one-sided view of the historical process as moving unequivocally towards a decaying condition." | + | According to British sociologist Daniel Chernilo, for Nisbet, "The sociological interest in the formation of [[modern society]] lies in whether and how it can re-invigorate forms of communal life and, if not, in understanding what will be the consequences of such failure." Nisbet, thus, "inverts what had been until then the mainstream proposition that society was more important, both historically and normatively, than community." |
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| - | ===Books=== | + | |
| - | * 1953. ''The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom'' | + | |
| - | * 1966. ''The Sociological Tradition'' | + | |
| - | * 1968. ''Tradition and Revolt: Historical and Sociological Essays'' | + | |
| - | * 1969. ''Social Change and History: Aspects of the Western Theory of Development'' | + | |
| - | * 1970. ''The Social Bond: An Introduction to the Study of Society'' | + | |
| - | * 1971. ''The Degradation of the Academic Dogma: The University in America, 1945–1970'' | + | |
| - | * 1976. ''Sociology as an Art Form'' | + | |
| - | * 1973. ''The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought'' | + | |
| - | * 1974. ''The Sociology of Emile Durkheim'' | + | |
| - | * 1975. ''The Twilight of Authority'' | + | |
| - | * 1980. ''History of the Idea of Progress'' | + | |
| - | * 1983. ''Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary'' | + | |
| - | * 1986. ''The Making of Modern Society'' | + | |
| - | * 1986. ''Conservatism: Dream and Reality'' | + | |
| - | * 1988. ''Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship'' | + | |
| - | * 1992. ''Teachers and Scholars: A Memoir of Berkeley in Depression and War'' | + | |
| - | * 1994 DR. who | + | |
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| - | ===Articles=== | + | |
| - | * [https://mises.org/books/foreign_policy_nisbet.pdf "Foreign Policy and the American Mind"]. ''Commentary'' (September 1961, pp. 194–203). | + | |
| - | * {{cite web |url=https://isistatic.org/journal-archive/ir/08_01_02/nisbet.pdf|title=The Nemesis of Authority|work=The Intercollegiate Review|date=Winter–Spring 1972}} | + | |
| - | * [https://mises.org/books/new_despotism_nisbet.pdf "The New Despotism"]. ''Commentary'' (July 1976). | + | |
| - | * {{cite web |url=https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/07/conservatives-and-libertarians-uneasy.html |title=Conservatives and Libertarians: Uneasy Cousins |work=Modern Age|date=Winter 1980}} | + | |
| - | * {{cite web |url=https://isistatic.org/journal-archive/ma/30_02/nisbet.pdf|title= Roosevelt and Stalin (I)|work= Modern Age |date=Spring 1986}} | + | |
| - | * {{cite web |url=https://isistatic.org/journal-archive/ma/30_3-4/nisbet.pdf|title= Roosevelt and Stalin (II)|work= Modern Age|date=Summer–Fall 1986}} | + | |
| - | * {{cite web |url=https://isistatic.org/journal-archive/ir//29_01/nisbet.pdf |title=Still Questing |work=The Intercollegiate Review|date=Fall 1993}} | + | |
| - | * [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/repository/was-there-an-american-revolution/ "Was There an American Revolution?,"] ''The American Conservative,'' August 3, 2012. | + | |
| - | * [http://academic.eb.com/EBchecked/topic/551385/social-science/ "social science,"] ''Britannica ACADEMIC.'' (Primary Contributor) | + | |
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| - | == References == | + | |
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| - | ==Further reading== | + | |
| - | * Carey, George W., 2010, [http://www.imaginativeconservative.org/2010/07/nisbet-war-and-american-republic-by.html "Nisbet, War, and American Republic"], [http://www.imaginativeconservative.org/ ''The Imaginative Conservative''] ([[blog]]). | + | |
| - | * Church, Mike, 2012, [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/nisbet-and-rise-of-machines/#.UXLCg6KG2So "Robert Nisbet and the Rise of the Machines,"] ''The Imaginative Conservative.'' | + | |
| - | * Elliott, Winston, III, 2010, [http://www.imaginativeconservative.org/2010/07/war-crisis-and-centralization-of-power.html "War, Crisis and Centralization of Power"], ''The Imaginative Conservative'' (blog). | + | |
| - | * Gordon, Daniel. "The Voice of History within Sociology: Robert Nisbet on Structure, Change, and Autonomy," ''Historical Reflections'' (2012) 38#1 pp. 43–63 | + | |
| - | * Hill, Fred Donovan, 1978, [http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/robert-nisbet-and-the-idea-of-community/ "Robert Nisbet and the Idea of Community,"] ''The University Bookman,'' Volume 18, Number 3. | + | |
| - | * Mancini, Matthew J. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi69.2.html "Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception"], ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', Volume 69, Number 2, April 2008, pp. 245–268. | + | |
| - | * McWilliams, Susan, [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/feb/01/00036/ Hometown Hero: Robert Nisbet’s conservatism of community against the state], ''[[The American Conservative]]'' (Feb. 1, 2010) | + | |
| - | * Nagel, Robert F., 2004, "States and Localities: A Comment on Robert Nisbet's Communitarianism," ''Publius,'' Vol. 34, No. 4. | + | |
| - | * {{cite journal | last1 = Perrin | first1 = Robert | year = 1999 | title = Robert Alexander Nisbet | url = http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1434/Nisbet.pdf | journal = [[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society]] | volume = 143 | issue = 4 | pages = 695–710 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060830004241/http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1434/Nisbet.pdf | archivedate = 2006-08-30 }} | + | |
| - | * Stone, Brad Lowell, 1998 (Spring), [http://www.mmisi.org/ir/33_02/stone.pdf "A True Sociologist: Robert Nisbet"], [[Intercollegiate Studies Institute|''The Intercollegiate Review'']]: 38–42. | + | |
| - | * {{cite book|last=Stone|first=Brad Lowell|title=Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist|date=2000|publisher=[[Intercollegiate Studies Institute]]|isbn=978-1882926480|url=http://isibooks.org/robert-nisbet-1939.html}} | + | |
| - | * [[Joseph Stromberg|Stromberg, Joseph]], 2000, [http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=3371 "The Under-Appreciated Robert Nisbet"], [http://www.antiwar.com antiwar.com]. | + | |
| - | * [[Robert McG. Thomas|Thomas, Robert McG.]], [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E5D91F3BF931A2575AC0A960958260 "Robert Nisbet, 82, Sociologist And Conservative Champion"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 12, 1996. | + | |
| - | * Wolfe, Alan, 2010, "[https://newrepublic.com/book/review/remembering-alienation-nisbet-community-wolfe# Remembering Alienation]," ''New Republic.'' | + | |
| + | Chernilo also critically observed that Nisbet's "argument on the Great War [World War I] that marks the transition from community to society offers a one-sided view of the historical process as moving unequivocally towards a decaying condition." | ||
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The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953) is a book by Robert Nisbet. It claimed that modern social science's individualism denied an important human drive toward community as it left people without the aid of their fellows to combat the centralizing power of the nation-state. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat called it "arguably the 20th century's most important work of conservative sociology."
Nisbet challenged conventional sociological theories about progress and modernity, insisting on the negative consequences of the loss of traditional forms of community, a process that he believed was greatly accelerated by World War I.
According to British sociologist Daniel Chernilo, for Nisbet, "The sociological interest in the formation of modern society lies in whether and how it can re-invigorate forms of communal life and, if not, in understanding what will be the consequences of such failure." Nisbet, thus, "inverts what had been until then the mainstream proposition that society was more important, both historically and normatively, than community."
Chernilo also critically observed that Nisbet's "argument on the Great War [World War I] that marks the transition from community to society offers a one-sided view of the historical process as moving unequivocally towards a decaying condition."
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