Wrong, Dennis. “The Anatomy of History.” Commentary 48, no. 5 (1969): 85-9.  

Abstract:

[In the following review of Social Change and History, Wrong favorably compares the work to Nisbet’s earlier The Sociological Tradition sinceSocial Change and History foregoes broad characterizations of individual thinkers in favor of close examination of the metaphor of growth as it developed throughout Western history.]

Robert Nisbet adopts in this book the same approach to intellectual history that he employed in his previous book, The Sociological Tradition. Instead of concentrating on individual thinkers or on recognized schools of thought,…

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