Varieties of Reason, by Lionel Abel, COMMENTARY

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Varieties of Reason

Discourse on Thinking, by Martin Heidegger

by Lionel Abel

Commentary, December 1967, pp. 107-114

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    2. The American Crisis by Theodore Draper, pp. 27-50
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    4. Death of a Slogan by Robert Lekachman, pp. 56-61
    5. Race Wars in the Making by George Lichtheim, pp. 62-66
    6. Exhibiting the Lower East Side by Robert Alter, pp. 67-72
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      1. The Limits of American Capitalism by Robert L. Heilbroner
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    2. The President & The Negro by Daniel P. Moynihan, pp. 31-46
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    4. Upheaval in China by Benjamin I. Schwartz, pp. 55-64
    5. The People Who Walked by Tadeusz Borowski, pp. 65-70
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      1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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      1. Anger, and Beyond by Herbert Hill
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    April 1967 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 7-30
    2. Counterrevolutionary America by Robert L. Heilbroner, pp. 31-38
    3. China, Russia & the U.S.: II by Oscar Gass, pp. 39-46
    4. British Alternatives by George Lichtheim, pp. 47-52
    5. The Religion of Paul Tillich by Michael Novak, pp. 53-66
    6. Are Jews Still Liberals? by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 67-73
    7. John Peale Bishop & the Other Thirties by Leslie A. Fiedler, pp. 74-81
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-36
    2. A Guide to Reagan Country by James Q. Wilson, pp. 37-45
    3. Exodus as Autobiography by Arthur R. Gold, pp. 46-51
    4. Vietnam by Joseph J. Weiss, pp. 52-59
    5. Dr. McGrath by Edmund Wilson, pp. 60-67
    6. Russell and Wittgenstein by Michael Frayn, pp. 68-75
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    4. Jerusalem and Athens by Leo Strauss, pp. 45-57
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    2. Manchester Unexpurgated by Edward Jay Epstein, pp. 25-31
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    5. The High Cost of Eating by Ben B. Seligman, pp. 48-52
    6. Varieties of Jewis Experience by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 53-61
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    8. Eastern Europe & the Death of God by Norman Birnbaum, pp. 69-72
    9. Musical Hebraism by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, pp. 73-78
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-18
    2. Israel and World Politics by Theodore Draper, pp. 19-48
    3. Israel, the Arabs, and World Opinion by Walter Laqueur, pp. 49-59
    4. Letter from the Sinai Front by Amos Elon, pp. 60-68
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    2. Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited, p. 31
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    22. --- by Lionel Trilling, p. 76
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      3. Thou Worm Jacob by Mark Mirsky
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-38
    2. The Lessons of the Long Hot Summer by Bayard Rustin, pp. 39-45
    3. Israel & the Intellectuals by Robert Alter, pp. 46-52
    4. In the Light of Israel's Victory by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 53-61
    5. Is Communism Dead? by George Lichtheim, pp. 62-67
    6. Norman Mailer Today by James Toback, pp. 68-76
    7. Liberalism According to Galbraith by Michael Harrington, pp. 77-84
    8. The Voices of Newark by Jervis Anderson, pp. 85-89
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      1. Socrates and Aristophanes by Leo Strauss
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 6-26
    2. The American Left & Israel by Martin Peretz, pp. 27-34
    3. Henry Luce & His Time by Joseph Epstein, pp. 35-47
    4. The Culture of Modernism by Irving Howe, pp. 48-60
    5. Judaism, Christianity & the Western Tradition by Hans Jonas, pp. 61-70
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    7. Rise and Slay! by John Thompson, pp. 81-85
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    2. The Legacy of Che Guevara by Norman Gall, pp. 31-46
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    6. Stories about Terrible Things by John Thompson, pp. 77-79
    7. Persona by Robert Garis, pp. 80-81
    8. Two New Plays by Jack Richardson, pp. 82-83
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