Stubborn Ethical Radicalism
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Gary Dorrien teaches social ethics, theology, and philosophy of religion as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He was previously the Parfet Distinguished Professor at Kalamazoo College where he taught for eighteen years and also served as Dean of Stetson Chapel and Director of the Liberal Arts Colloquium. Professor Dorien is the author of nineteen books and more than 300 articles that range across the fields of social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history. In 2017, Dorien won the Grawemeyer Award for his book The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. In 2013, Dorien won the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Award for his book Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology. In 2010, Dorien won the Choice Award for his book Social Ethics in the Making. Dorrien has focused on economic democracy and social justice politics, post-Kantian philosophy, and modern theology throughout his career. His early books on these subjects include Reconstructing the Common Good (1990), The Neoconservative Mind: Politics, Culture, and the War of Ideology (1992), Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity (1995), The Word as True Myth (1997), and The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology (2000). His most recent books are Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel and Imagining Democratic Socialism: Political Theology, Marxism, and Social Democracy, both published by Yale University Press in 2018. Imagining Democratic Socialism, to be published in November 2018, examines the intertwined history of Social Democracy, Marxism, and Christian socialism in Britain and Germany, making an argument for decentralized economic democracy. Follow Vanderbilt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderbiltu, on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vanderbiltu and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanderbilt. See all Vanderbilt social media at http://social.vanderbilt.edu.
