‘Ultimate optimism’: the twin critical visions of E.H. Carr and Reinhold Niebuhr
Published online on October 31, 2023
Abstract
International Relations, Ahead of Print.
This essay elucidates the deep affinity between the political theories of E.H. Carr and Reinhold Niebuhr. Central to this affinity was their shared advocacy of an ongoing dialectic between vision and critique, or (in their words) utopianism and realism. ...
This essay elucidates the deep affinity between the political theories of E.H. Carr and Reinhold Niebuhr. Central to this affinity was their shared advocacy of an ongoing dialectic between vision and critique, or (in their words) utopianism and realism. ...