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1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; Introduction; 1. History and Metaphor; 2. The Metaphor of Growth; Part I. Civilization as Growth in Time: The Biography of a Metaphor; One The Greeks; 1. Being as Becoming; 2. Cycles of Genesis and Decay; 3. Progress and Degeneration (1); Two The Christians; 1. The Augustinian Metaphor; 2. The Repudiation of Cycles; 3. Historical Necessity; 4. The Two Cities: Conflict and Resolution; 5. Progress and Degeneration (2); Three The Moderns; 1. The Metaphor as Progress |
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2. The Expansion of Metaphor3. Progress and Degeneration (3); Part II. The Theory of Social Development; Four The Theory of Natural History; 1. Nature versus Convention; 2. Natural versus Conventional History; Five The Theory of Social Evolution; 1. Sources and Contexts; 2. The Elements of Social Evolution; Six The Comparative Method; 1. Ethnocentric Foundations; 2. Historical Roots; 3. The Three Series; Part III. Persistence and Change; Seven The Persistence of Metaphor; 1. Cycle, Epic, and Progress; 2. Neo-Evolutionism; Eight Reflections on a Metaphor; 1. The Uses of Metaphor |
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2. The Abuses of Metaphor3. The Irrelevance of Metaphor; Notes and References; Index |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 28, 2017) |
| Subject |
Social change.
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Historical sociology.
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historical sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Historical sociology
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Social change
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Horowitz, Irving Louis, author.
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| ISBN |
9781351505635 |
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1351505637 |
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9781351505628 |
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1351505629 |
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9781315124421 |
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1315124424 |
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