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This new critical edition of Robert Nisbet’s classic work is featured as part of ISI Books’ Background series. The Quest for Community was first published by Oxford University Press in 1953. In 1962 it appeared under a new title, Community and Power. The book was reissued under the original title in 1969. A new edition was published by ICS Press in 1990.
This Background edition of The Quest for Community was made possible by the generous support of Ms. Frances G. Hunter. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute gratefully acknowledges this support.
Copyright © 1953, 1981 by Robert A. Nisbet
“Introduction to the Background Edition”: Copyright © 2010 by Ross Douthat
“The State and Fading Community”: Copyright © 2010 by John Carroll.
“Modernity's New World Dangers”: Copyright © 2010 by David Bosworth.
“The Enduring Achievement and Unfinished Work of Robert Nisbet”: Copyright © 2010 by Jeanne Heffernan Schindler.
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