Tradition and Revolt

This classic volume deals with a crucial contemporary social issue: the conflict between traditionalism and modernism

Robert A. Nisbet (1913-1996) was Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia University, and before that, dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Riverside. Among his many books are History of the Idea of Progress, The Sociological Tradition, The Degradation of the Academic Dogma, and Teachers and Scholars, all available from Transaction. Robert G. Perrin is professor of sociology and director of graduate studies at the University of Tennessee.

1: Rousseau and the Political Community; 2: The Politics of Pluralism: Lamennais; 3: Leadership and Social Crisis; 4: Conservatism and Sociology; 5: History and Sociology; 6: The Decline and Fall of Social Class; 7: Moral Values and Community; 8: Sociology as an Art Form; 9: Power and the Intellectual; 10: The Impact of Technology on Ethical Decision-Making; 11: Kinship and Political Power in First Century Rome; 12: The Permanent Professors: A Modest Proposal; 13: Project Camelot and the Science of Man; 14: Conflicting Academic Loyalties