Metaphor and History
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ancient Greek philosophy
Augustinian Metaphor
Author_Robert Nisbet
Bar Barism
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century
christian
Christian Epic
Chronic
Civil Society
comparative
Comparative Method
eentury
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century Natural Historians
epic
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essen
evolution
evolutionism
Follow
functionalist perspective
Genetic Continuity
Geological Record
Held
historical sociology
Irving Louis Horowitz
Mankind
nineteenth
Nineteenth Century Social Evolutionism
organic analogy
origins of social change theory
Preliterate Cultures
Pristine
progress theory
Recurrent Cycles
Robert A. Nisbet
Sick
social
Social Evolution
Social Organization
Social Structures
Social System
Teilhard De Chardin
Timeless
Western intellectual history
Wo
Product details
- ISBN 9781138528000
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.Instead, Nisbet finds the metaphor of organic growth and the analogy of the life cycle--among the oldest in the history of human thought--embedded in the pronouncements of sages, historians, and social scientists from Heraclitus and Aristotle to Comte, Marx, Spengler, Toynbee, Berdyaev, and Sorokin. He relates the classic Greek metaphor of growth, applied to society; the Christian epic, with its substance in the fusion of Hebrew and Greek ideas; and ideas of progress, natural history, evolution, and sociological functionalism.This book may be considered the "biography of a metaphor" of social development, one that has persisted through two and a half millennia of Western European history. A sociologist's view of history, this is a work at once of synthesis and of exploration of the premises and foundations of social evolution and social change.
