Nisbet, Robert A. 1953. The quest for community: a study in the ethics of order and freedom. New York: Oxford University Press.

Abstract:

Part One: Community and the Problem of Order:

1 The Loss of Community One may paraphrase the famous words of Karl Marx and say that a specter is haunting the modern mind, the specter of insecurity. Surely the outstand­ ing characteristic of contemporary thought on man and society is the preoccupation with personal alienation and cultural disintegration. The fears of the nineteenth-century conservatives in Western Europe, expressed against a background of increasing individualism, secularism, and social dislocation, have become, to an extraordinary degree, the insights and hypotheses of present-day students of man in society. The widening concern with insecurity and disintegration is accompanied by…

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