6. Michael Harrington and the “Left Wing of the Possible”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. PART I: The Social Gospel and Niebuhrian Realism
6. 1. Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel 3
7. 2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism 29
8. 3. The Niebuhrian Legacy: Christian Realism as Theology, Social Ethics, and Public Intellectualism 46
9. 4. Ironic Complexity: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Modernity, and Racial Justice 66
10. PART II: Economic Democracy in Question
11. 5. Norman Thomas and the Dilemma of American Socialism 87
12. 6. Michael Harrington and the “Left Wing of the Possible” 111
13. 7. Christian Socialism as Tradition and Problem 133
14. 8. Breaking the Oligarchy: Globalization, Turbo-Capitalism, Economic Crash, Economic Democracy 143
15. 9. Rethinking and Renewing Economic Democracy 168
16. PART III: Neoconservatism and American Empire
17. 10. The Neoconservative Phenomenon: American Power and the War of Ideology 187
18. 11. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the Iraq War 214
19. 12. Militaristic Illusions: The Iraq Debacle and the Crisis of American Empire 240
20. 13. Empire in Denial: American Exceptionalism and the Community of Nations 259
21. PART IV: Social Ethics and the Politics of Difference
22. 14. The Feminist Difference: Rosemary R. Ruether and Eco-Socialist Christianity 289
23. 15 Pragmatic Postmodern Prophecy: Cornel West as Social Critic and Public Intellectual 304
24. 16. As Purple to Lavender: Katie Cannon and Womanist Ethics 336
25. 17. Religious Pluralism as a Justice Issue: Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and Ecumenism 349
26. 18. The Obama Phenomenon and Presidency 367
27. 19. Social Ethics in the Making: History, Method, and White Supremacism 392
28. Notes 411
29. Index 475