Overcoming America / America Overcoming

Stephen C. Rowe

doi:10.5771/9780739171417

Summary

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 lifeway, 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.

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Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-7140-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7141-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 225
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Worldview as Issue and Choice No access
  2. New Worldview No access
  3. Dialogue, Tradition, and Practice No access
  4. American Ambiguity No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Corporate Capitalism and the Abandonment of America No access
  2. Hating Reasonable Discourse No access
  3. Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed No access
  4. Ideological and Relational Worldviews No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. The Modern Eclipse of America No access
  2. Conversational Aside: The American Bubble No access
  3. Two Modernities No access
  4. From Individualism to Moral Disease No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. Notes No access
1. 1. Conversational Aside: The Perspective of Nothingness No access
  2. Traditional Wisdom No access
  3. Modernity, Reappropriation, and Dialogue No access
  4. Postmodern Critique and Return of Wisdom No access
  5. American Tradition and Democratic Spirit No access
  6. Conversational Aside: Contra Postmodernism No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. The Emergence of Dialogue No access
  2. Six Qualities of Dialogue No access
  3. America and New Worldview No access
  4. Conversational Aside: Reappropriating the Modern No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. The Mystery of Chinese Vitality No access
  2. Confucian Vision No access
  3. Chinese-American Dialogue No access
  4. Notes No access
4. 1. Three Pluralisms No access
  2. Conversational Aside: Going to Pittsburg No access
  3. Dialogue and/as Practice No access
  4. Huston Smith as Example No access
  5. Conversational Aside: Paradox and Relationality No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. Conversational Aside: American Challenge No access
  2. A Nearly Forgotten Subtradition No access
  3. From Sixties Activism to Liberal Education No access
  4. Conversational Aside: ’60s in Shanghai and Chicago No access
  5. Conversational Aside: Education as Reform No access
  6. Waves of Discovery and Challenge No access
  7. Return of Relational Liberalism? No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. American Clashing No access
  2. Reappropriating the American Vision No access
  3. Notes No access
3. 1. Conversational Aside: A New Universalism No access
  2. Notes No access
4. 1. Practice in the Post-Traditional Era No access
  2. Conversational Aside: Education as Transformation No access
  3. Decision, Openness, Return No access
  4. Interpretation and Engagement No access
  5. Components of Practice No access
  6. Resistance, Faith, and Surrender No access
  7. Notes No access
5. 1. Claiming a Liberal Education No access
  2. Ideas and Relationships No access
  3. Contemporary Agenda No access
  4. A Democratic Curriculum No access
  5. Conversational Aside: Nihilists Annoyed No access
  6. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 213 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 224
About the Author No access Pages 225 - 225