The quest for community
Subtitle: a study in the ethics of order and freedom
By: Robert Nisbet ; with an introduction by Ross Douthat
Edition: New critical ed.
Series: Background; Background (Wilmington, Del.)
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781935191506
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-319) and index.

Originally published: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 1953. Issued in 1962 under the new title: Community and power. Reissued in 1969 under the original title: The quest for community.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Community and the problem of order. The loss of community. The image of community. The problem of community; title: Part Two. The state and community. History as the decline of community. The state as revolution. Sovereignty and association. The political community. The total community; title: Part Three. Community and the problem of freedom. The problem of liberalism. The contexts of individuality. The contexts of democracy. Conclusion; title: Critical essays. The state and fading communlity / John Carroll. Modernity's new world dangers / David Bosworth. The enduring achievement and unfinished work of Robert Nisbet / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler.