Kurtz, Paul W. "A review of the Quest for Community: a Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom." The Journal of Philosophy50, no. 25 (1953): 788-92. doi:10.2307/2021650.

Abstract:

[In the following review of Quest for Community, Kurtz argues that Nisbet’s work is part of a useful trend in social science toward examining people as part of social units or communities rather than as isolated individuals.] Even a perfunctory acquaintance with recent social and political science will reveal that the basic theoretical concepts have been gradually undergoing revision. Theories of society or the state based upon the “psychic,” biological, or instinctive properties of the…

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