The Quest for Community

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Author(s): Robert A. Nisbet
Publisher: ISI Books
Year: 2010

Language: English

Title
Contents
Introduction to the Background Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the 1970 edition
Part One: Community and the Problem of Order
1 - The Loss of Community
2 - The Image of Community
3 - The Problem of Community
Part Two: The State and Community
4 - History as the Decline of Community
5 - The State as Revolution
6 - Sovereignty and Association
7 - The Political Community
8 - The Total Community
Part Three: Community and the Problem of Freedom
9 - The Problem of Liberalism
10 - The Contexts of Individuality
11 - The Contexts of Democracy
Conclusion
Critical Essays
The State and Fading Community
Modernity’s New World Dangers
The Enduring Achievement and Unfinished Work of Robert Nisbet
References and Notes
Index
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