Man's Nature and His Communities

Description: This book centers on the major theme of Reinhold Niebuhrs lifework the nature of humanity and the political and social life. Idealistic and realistic social philosophies are reevaluated and tribalism is analyzed as a pervasive quality of humankinds societies. A thinker who has always advanced by criticizing his own assumptions Dr. Niebuhr continued to break new ground and to reconsider some of his earlier judgments. In this book Dr. Niebuhr reviews the doctrines of the political order advanced by religious and secular interests; he traces the long history of the paradox of mans obvious universal humanity and the tribal loyalties which are the roots of human inhumanity; and he deals with the complex relation between ambition and creativity. Adding to and modifying his remarkable contribution to contemporary thought Dr. Niebuhr has written a book that is of fundamental importance. About the Contributor(s): Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) ethicist theologian and political philosopher taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1928 to 1960. Prior to that he was a minister of Detroits Bethel Evangelical Church for thirteen years. Among his many books are Faith and History Moral Man and Immoral Society Beyond Tragedy and The Irony of American History.