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In this new edition of Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the COVID-19 pandemic in tandem with Trumpism have brought basic dynamics of the American situation to high relief, and hence provide opportunity to address them - before it is too late. The dynamics he identifies are those of moral disease and political paralysis as 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 the current and potentially fatal malaise and violence: 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
Part I: America and the Problem of Modernity
1 Worldview, Choice, and Dialogue
Worldview as Issue and Choice
New Worldview
Dialogue, Tradition, and Practice
American Ambiguity
2021 Conversational Aside: Dialogue and the Human Future
2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed—and Relationalists
Corporate Capitalism and the Abandonment of America
Hating Reasonable Discourse
Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed
Ideological and Relational Worldviews
2021 Conversational Aside: On Relationality
3 Moral Disease: The Late-Modern Condition in America
The Modern Eclipse of America
Conversational Aside: The American Bubble
Two Modernities
From Individualism to Moral Disease
2021 Conversational Aside: The Question of Soul
4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven Glimpses
2021 Conversational Aside: The Ambiguity of Nothingness
Part II: Relational Worldview
5 Reappropriating Tradition
Conversational Aside: The Perspective of Nothingness
Traditional Wisdom
Modernity, Reappropriation, and Dialogue
Postmodern Critique and Return of Wisdom
American Tradition and Democratic Spirit
Conversational Aside: Contra Postmodernism
6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility
The Emergence of Dialogue
Six Qualities of Dialogue
America and New Worldview
Conversational Aside: Reappropriating the Modern
7 What We Can Learn from/with China 101 The Mystery of Chinese Vitality
Confucian Vision
Chinese-American Dialogue
8 Dialogue, Development, and Pluralism
Three Pluralisms
Conversational Aside: Going to Pittsburg
Dialogue and/as Practice
Huston Smith as Example
Conversational Aside: Paradox and Relationality
Part III: Reviving Civic Virtue
9 A Liberal Confession
Conversational Aside: American Challenge
A Nearly Forgotten Subtradition
From Sixties Activism to Liberal Education
Conversational Aside: '60s in Shanghai and Chicago
Conversational Aside: Education as Reform
Waves of Discovery and Challenge
Return of Relational Liberalism?
10 American Clash and Revival
American Clashing
Reappropriating the American Vision
11 Pragmatism Revisited
Conversational Aside: A New Universalism
12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on/from the
Practical Turn
Practice in the Post-Traditional Era
Conversational Aside: Education as Transformation
Decision, Openness, Return
Interpretation and Engagement
Components of Practice
Resistance, Faith, and Surrender
13 Liberal Education as Democratic Practice
Claiming a Liberal Education
Ideas and Relationships
Contemporary Agenda
A Democratic Curriculum
Conversational Aside: Nihilists Annoyed
Conclusion: Democracy Somewhere
