Andelson, Robert V. “Progress or Providence.” Modern Age 25, no. 1, (1981): 80-83.

Abstract:

[In the following review of History of the Idea of Progress, Andelson criticizes Nisbet for including too many divergent ideas under the title “progress,” thereby failing to give a coherent criticism of any particular idea of importance in contemporary debate.]

Robert Nisbet is a scholar and thinker of deserved distinction, but this ambitious work [History of the Idea of Progress], despite much that merits commendation, does not qualify as one of his more impressive efforts. J. M. Cameron calls it “a scissors-and-paste job, and dull one,”1but..

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