CONTENTS

Introduction to the Background Edition

Ross Douthat

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the 1970 edition

PART ONE:
COMMUNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF ORDER

1  THE LOSS OF COMMUNITY

2  THE IMAGE OF COMMUNITY

3  THE PROBLEM OF COMMUNITY

PART TWO:
THE STATE AND COMMUNITY

4   HISTORY AS THE DECLINE OF COMMUNITY

5   THE STATE AS REVOLUTION

6   SOVEREIGNTY AND ASSOCIATION

7   THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY

8   THE TOTAL COMMUNITY

PART THREE:
COMMUNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM

9   THE PROBLEM OF LIBERALISM

10   THE CONTEXTS OF INDIVIDUALITY

11   THE CONTEXTS OF DEMOCRACY

CONCLUSION

CRITICAL ESSAYS

The State and Fading Community
John Carroll

Modernity's New World Dangers
David Bosworth

The Enduring Achievement and Unfinished Work of Robert Nisbet
Jeanne Heffernan Schindler

References and Notes

Index