ROBERT NISBET
Communitarian Traditionalist
By Brad Lowell Stone
List Item No. 291 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1-882926-48-X (cloth)
170 pages (includes Index)
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This is the only book-length intellectual treatment of sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), and it was written by one of the country's leading authorities on his life and work, Brad Lowell Stone. In this work, the debut volume of the new Library of Modern Thinkers series, Stone demonstrates that Nisbet anticipated much that is being said today by communitarians and civil society theorists. Nisbet's wide-ranging work and continuing relevance are thoughtfully examined in Stone's useful guide.
What They're Saying...
"[S]tone's volume serves as a concise and admirable review of Nisbet's substantial intellectual legacy."
— American Enterprise
"In launching their latest series, the "Library of Modern Thinkers," the editors at ISI Books could hardly select a more perspicacious mind to probe than that of the late American conservative sociologist, Robert Alexander Nisbet."
— University Bookman
"Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist is an important contribution to political philosophy. Author Brad Lowell Stone offers not only a splendid and illuminating analysis of one of America's most creative 20th-century thinkers. He also makes a valuable contribution of his own to conservative thought, with his critical examination of Nisbetian ideas from the perspective of the classical liberalism of the Scottish enlightenment."
— Allan Carlson, President, The Howard Center
"A sterling précis of a thinker who couldn't seem more relevant."
— Booklist
"[A] clear, well-presented account of Nisbet's crucial contribution to an important strain of modern American thought."
— ForeWord
"A worthy contribution to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's series, Library of Modern Thinkers."
— First Things
"Mr. Stone has written an admirably clear, concise, learned, thoughtful, and not always uncritical, introduction to Nisbet's life and thought."
— Washington Sunday Times
"Brad Stone's Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist is an essential propaedeutic to the work of a learned scholar trained in sociology, but wise in the ways of philosophy and social policy. Nisbet was a man who always marched to his own drummer. This overview helps us understand why—and perhaps will assist us in doing likewise."
— Irving Louis Horowitz, University Professor & Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Political Science, Rutgers University
Chapters Include:
- Life
- Community and State Power
- Political Monism and Social Pluralism
- Conservative Dogmatics
- Sociology and History
- Statism or New Laissez-Faire?
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