Jim Skillen

Second of a three-part series on pluralism, edited and excerpted from James W. Skillen and Rockne M. McCarthy, eds., Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society, © 1991 Emory University. Used by permission of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,...

Writing in the decade following World War II, social philosopher Robert A. Nisbet began to raise serious questions about the North American liberal ideals of human autonomy and inevitable human progress.From a standpoint in the early twenty-first century, many may be...