The Social Philosophers: A Reading for the Present
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Lucía Vallejo Rodríguez. On June 3, 1973, in a...
A Sociology of the Permanent Things: Nisbet’s Tocquevillian Philosophy
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Academia is hardly considered a...
Aging White Male Future Shock: The Contemporary Relevance of a Sociological Classic
Future Shock By Alvin Toffler. Random House, 1970. Reviewed by John Rodden. More than seven years after the #MeToo movement exploded in October 2017 in the aftermath of public outrage over allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the...
The Enduring Mystery of War
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan. Random House, 2020. Hardcover, 336 pages, $30. Reviewed by Michael J. Ard Times were tough for Ötzi the Iceman. Found thirty years ago in the Italian Alps, the multi-wounded corpse of the five-thousand-year-old hunter...
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