Joyfully Serious Man (eBook)

The Life of Robert Bellah

Matteo Bortolini (Autor)

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2021
638 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20439-0 (ISBN)

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The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927-2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of religion as both a cultural phenomenon and a way to fathom the depths of the human condition. A Joyfully Serious Man is the definitive biography of this towering figure in modern intellectual life, and a revelatory portrait of a man who led an adventurous yet turbulent life.Drawing on Bellah's personal papers as well as in-depth interviews with those who knew him, Matteo Bortolini tells the story of an extraordinary scholarly career and an eventful and tempestuous life. He describes Bellah's exile from the United States during the hysteria of the McCarthy years, his crushing personal tragedies, and his experiments with sexuality. Bellah understood religion as a mysterious human institution that brings together the scattered pieces of individual and collective experiences. Bortolini shows how Bellah championed intellectual openness and innovation through his relentless opposition to any notion of secularization as a decline of religion and his ideas about the enduring tensions between individualism and community in American society.Based on nearly two decades of research, A Joyfully Serious Man is a revelatory chronicle of a leading public intellectual who was both a transformative thinker and a restless, passionate seeker.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic freedom • Admiration • After Virtue • Allan Bloom • Ambivalence • Appeasement • Average Joe • Axial Age • Barrington Moore, Jr. • charismatic authority • Christian Right • Civil Religion • Clifford Geertz • Communitarianism • Consciousness • conservative judaism • courtesy • Culture hero • Discipline • Émile Durkheim • enthusiasm • erudition • formality • Gananath Obeyesekere • glorification • good faith • good omens • Grandiosity • Gratitude • great books • Great Power • Hedonism • Herbert J. Gans • High Modernism • Hippie • His Favorite • H. Richard Niebuhr • Impartiality • Impossibility • Individualism • In Plain Sight • Jack Miles • J. Anthony Lukas • Jerome Bruner • Loyalty • Manliness (book) • Max Weber • meaningful life • Modernity • morale • Morality • Moral Majority • Morton White • Mr. • On Religion • On the Right Track • open marriage • Open-mindedness • optimism • originality • Original Position • Patriotism • peacemaking • peacetime • Political Man • positive feedback • Post-war consensus • Pragmatism • pro bono • Rational Analysis • Rationality • Religion • Romanticism • Rugged Individualism • Sam Keen • secular humanism • Secularism • secular movement • Self-confidence • self-fulfillment • self-righteousness • seriousness • Social Science • Sociology • Sola Fide • Solidarity • SOPHISM • Spirituality • Subjectivism • Talcott Parsons • The Best and the Brightest • The Love-Ins • The Other Hand • Triumphalism • truth claim • Unconditional Love • Utilitarianism • Utopia • Wilfred Cantwell Smith • Young Man Luther
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20439-X / 069120439X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20439-0 / 9780691204390