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Present Age - Progress & Anarchy in Modern America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Present Age - Progress & Anarchy in Modern America (Paperback, New Ed)
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"The Present Age" challenges readers to reexamine the role of the
United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticizes
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, centralization, and
creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in
the western world. "The Present Age" relates a tragedy--the
unprecedented militarization of American life in the decades after
1914, as the result of the necessary resistance to National
Socialist and Communist totalitarianism that fed into and
reinforced the profound tendencies toward centralization within
modern society.
Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), former professor of sociology at
Columbia University, is the author of "Sociology as an Art Form;
The Social Philosophers; Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary;
The Sociological Tradition; History of the Idea of Progress;" and
"Twilight of Authority," also published by Liberty Fund.
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