Twilight of Authority - Softcover

Robert Nisbet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865972125 ISBN 13: 9780865972124

Publisher: Liberty Fund, 2000

Synopsis

“We had thought, or our forefathers had, that modern liberal democracy would be spared the kind of erosion and decay that both Plato and Aristotle declared endemic in all forms of state. Now we are not so sure.” So wrote Robert Nisbet in the first edition of Twilight of Authority, published by Oxford University Press in 1975. “The centralization and, increasingly, individualization of power is matched in the social and cultural spheres by a combined hedonism and egalitarianism, each in its own way a reflection of the destructive impact of power on the hierarchy that is native to the social bond,” he writes.

Robert Nisbet (1913–1996) taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.

Robert G. Perrin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0865972125
• ISBN 13: 9780865972124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278