Twilight of Authority - Hardcover

Nisbet, Robert A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195019423 ISBN 13: 9780195019421

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1975

Synopsis

Modern Political Philosophy

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.

Review:

"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 of the social bond, " he writes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0195019423
• ISBN 13: 9780195019421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287