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In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world. He points to a way out of this current and potentially fatal malaise: join other societies which are also struggling to move beyond the modern and consciously reappropriate those elements of tradition which have to do with cultivation of the mature human being. To avoid fundamentalism, Rowe discusses how this reappropriation must be undertaken in dialogue with those who also have come to recognize the unsustainable quality of the modern life, and who have been able to live beyond the nihilistic wish to tear it down. This book supports the call for an emerging global ethic and spirituality, providing resources of articulation and interpretation that allow for an ongoing dialogue between traditional and modern values—both worthy and problematic in their own ways—through which reliable policy and healthy living become possible.
Contents
Foreword: Martin E. Marty
Part I America and the Problem of Modernity
Chapter 1: Worldview, Choice, and Dialogue
Chapter 2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed — and Relationalists
Chapter 3 Moral Disease and Nothingness:
Chapter 4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven Glimpses
Part II Relational Worldview
Chapter 5 Reappropriating Tradition
Chapter 6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility: Reappropriating the Modern
Chapter 7 What We Can Learn From/With China
Chapter 8 Dialogue, Development, and Pluralism
Part III Reviving Civic Virtue
Chapter 9 A Liberal Confession
Chapter 10 American Clash and Revival
Chapter 11 Pragmatism Revisited
Chapter 12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on/from the Practical Turn
Chapter 13 Liberal Education as Democratic Practice
Conclusion: Democracy Somewhere
