WebbForged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of … Webb22 jan. 2010 · Niebuhr's The Irony of American History is in itself reassuring. . . . It would be hard to think of another book from the 1950s that retains, nearly sixty years later, both its compulsive readability and so much of its relevance. The elegance, strength, and charm of Niebuhr's writing invite quotation at every turn. . . .

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Webb1 sep. 2014 · reinhold niebuhr and the irony of american history 105 U.S. foreign policy.” 83 In fact, Niebuhr not only gives an accurate “demy- thologizing” of American foreign policy , 84 but once again ... Webb20 maj 2024 · 如米尔斯（C. Wright Mills）的《白领》（White Collar，1951）、贝尔（Daniel Bell）的《意识形态的终结》（The End of Ideology，1960）、特里林（Lionel Trilling）的《自由想象》（The Liberal Imagination，1960）、尼布尔（Reinhold Niebuhr）的《美国历史的反讽》（The Irony of American History，1951）、利斯 … raika neustift

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WebbNiebuhr made no specific Christian references in his definition of the irony, rather explaining it to be “apparently fortuitous incongruities in life which are discovered, upon … WebbPublished at the height of the Cold War, The Irony of American History was a stinging attack on communism —and at the same time, a stinging indictment of American moral complacency, and a warning against the moral failings to which that complacency made America vulnerable. Once again, Niebuhr was fighting on two fronts at once. WebbAlla kategorier ... raika novais achkar petrillo