Conservatism: Dream and Reality (Concepts in Social Thought) - Hardcover

Nisbet, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816615241 ISBN 13: 9780816615247

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1986

Synopsis

The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for Community. In fact. Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established centers of power.

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About the Author

Robert Nisbet was Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816615241
• ISBN 13: 9780816615247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 118