Stone, Brad Lowell. “A True Sociologist.” The Intercollegiate Review 33, no. 2, (1998): 38-42.

Abstract:

[In the following essay, Stone briefly reviews Nisbet’s life and work, emphasizing Nisbet’s criticisms of centralized power and the romantic individualism of Jean Jacques Rousseau.]

Henri Bergson once observed that a true great thinker says but one thing in his life because he has but one point of contact with the real. By this Bergson meant that although a great thinker may have a variety of interests, he typically embraces one great truth that animates each of his pursuits and serves as a guide to lesser truths. Whether or not this holds generally, it is true of…

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