The constant dialogue : Reinhold Niebuhr and American intellectual culture
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The constant dialogue : Reinhold Niebuhr and American intellectual culture
（American intellectual culture）
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-351) and index
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In this important new work, Martin Halliwell focuses on the tensions between the two dimensions of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought: his political role as a radical social critic and the conservative drift of his religious beliefs. Halliwell concentrates particularly on his attempts to justify the role of the religious critic in a secular age by tracing his thought back to European and American traditions of religious individualism. In order to better examine Niebuhr's philosophy, Halliwell positions him in a series of debates on political, religious, ethical, and cultural themes with other public intellectuals such as John Dewey, Paul Tillich, W. H. Auden, George Kennan, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In doing so, the book reassesses the role of "dialogue" in Reinhold Niebuhr's thought and the important contributions that Reinhold Niebuhr made to twentieth century American culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture
Part I: The Intellectual Family: Pragmatism, Religion and Ethics, 1910s–1940s
Chapter 1: "Half-Truths Set Against Half-Truths": James and Niebuhr
Chapter 2: A Certain Blindness to Liberalism: Dewey and Niebuhr
Chapter 3: Crossing the Invisible Boundary: Tillich and Niebuhr
Chapter 4: "Soldiers in the Same Division": The Niebuhr Brothers
Part II: Wider Dialogues: Cultural, National and Political Identity, 1940s–1970s
Chapter 5: "Digging About in the Slime": Niebuhr and American Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6: The Myths and Dramas of History: Niebuhr and Postwar Culture
Chapter 7: "The Achilles' Heel of Democracy": Niebuhr and US Foreign Policy
Chapter 8: The New Face of Love: Niebuhr and the Civil Rights Movement
Conclusion: Niebuhr and the Search for Leadership
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