The Present Age
Progress and Anarchy in Modern America
The Present Age challenges readers to re-examine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticises Americans for isolationism at home, discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America. This work is deeply indebted to the analyses of Tocqueville and Bryce regarding the threats that bureaucracy, centralisation, and creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in the western world. The Present Age relates a tra…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-86597-409-8
- EAN: 9780865974098
- Produktnummer: 4918521
- Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 149 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.3 cm 304 g
- Abbildungen: index
- Gewicht: 304
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) was renowned worldwide for his scholarship in the history and philosophy of social and political thought. He taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.
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