Twilight of Authority
by Robert Nisbet
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Nisbet argues that the political community in the West has broken down after two centuries of ascendancy. He believes that the West has entered 'a twilight age' that will be characterised by political and cultural crises similar to those that preceded the fall of Rome. He foresees the displacement of traditional, liberal society by centralised, collectivised power -- what he terms 'the war society', driven by the rising power and expense of a hugely scaled military. Nisbet offers no prophecy show more of inevitable decline; rather, he means to call attention to: the problem of finding the means of generating a social order within which the individual can live and derive a spirit of initiative. show lessTags
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, History
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- 303.3 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Coordination and control
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- JC571 .N53 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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