Download or read book Human Nature, Interest, and Power written by Tex Sample and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book criticizes three basic concepts in Reinhold Niebuhr's social thought: his views of human nature, interest, and power. Attention is directed especially at the way Niebuhr's concepts lack sufficient historicity, obscure social and political dynamics, and, finally, lack adequate descriptive power. An alternative to each of these concepts is offered and used as a way to open up social thought to more complex analysis, more concrete and material uses, and a discussion of implications for alternative direction and action.