Metaphor and History : The Western Idea of Social Development

ISBN-13: 9781412808781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 356 str.

Robert Nisbet; Irving Horowitz

Opis

The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, Introduction, Part I. Civilization as Growth in Time: The Biography of a Metaphor, Part II. The Theory of Social Development, Part III. Persistence and Change, Notes and References, Index

O autorze

Robert Nisbet