{"product_id":"overcoming-america-america-overcoming-reinventing-culture-and-being-at-home-in-the-world-in-the-age-of-pandemic-9781793653352","title":"Overcoming America \/ America Overcoming:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Rowe launches a powerful argument for the need to aufheben ('negate-and-uplift') the modern and to construct a relational America. Engaging and refreshing. An excellent example of how comparative philosophy is relevant to the real world.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Chenyang Li, author of The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this intriguing new book, Stephen Rowe exemplifies the key democratic, educational, moral arts he invites us to understand, to value, to practice. Honestly, caringly, respectfully he invites us to think with him as he lays out the complex weave of analysis, understanding, and hopeful prescriptions on which he has worked for many years. It is a rich conversation we enter, then, with a thinking friend who cares a great deal about our troubled, troubling world. It is also a call to action, but, crucially, Rowe believes that, if we do not also and always keep working on understanding rightly, and truly with equal others, our best-intentioned actions can perpetuate the very harms we want to remedy.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Elizabeth K. Minnich, professor, Queens University (moral philosophy); author, “Transforming Knowledge”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wake-up call—and just in time! At the book's publication, the upper echelons of American society are wallowing to an alarming degree in the wasteland of unlimited greed, power-lust, pleasure-seeking, and corruption—all this in complete disregard of the deeper wellsprings that have animated America's original vision of 'liberty and justice for all.' This is a 'postmodern' book in the best sense: one that does not simply reject modernity but rather rescues modernity-gone-astray, thus paving the way to recovery. Stephen Rowe is an admirably lucid and courageous writer sounding this wake-up call—not by imposing moralistic formulas from above, but by encouraging a renewed cultivation of civic virtues through mutual openness and dialogical engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book should go far to establish Rowe as the contemporary American social critic who has inherited the mantle of Christopher Lasch. Rowe continues Lasch's trenchant observations of the sickness of our times, sounds the prophetic call to conversion for the sake of the true American promise, and carries the reader forward with strong, clear, well chosen words and convincing argument. The text reads as if it were spoken onto the page and the reader hears it as much as sees it. Rowe has created a style of writing most fitting for our 'post-traditional' era, and a message which, as he confesses in the book’s first sentence, is 'urgent, large, and a bit wild.' And also intimate, engaged, conversational, reflective, personal, anecdotal. Rowe brings his first-hand experience with inter-cultural dialogue, and in depth knowledge of Chinese culture, as well as his life-long devotion to liberal education as a way for citizens in a democracy to grow morally and spiritually together, to the contemporary public conversation he so celebrates and augments in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e -- J. Ronald Engel, Meadville\/Lombard Theological School\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOvercoming America represents a pioneering vision of the lineaments of the new map of eternal America as it struggles to stay America—with all the hope for the world which that entails—while the world changes within and around us.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jacob Needleman, author of What Is God? and The American Soul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOvercoming America represents a pioneering vision of the lineaments of the new map of eternal America as it struggles to stay America—with all the hope for the world which that entails—while the world changes within and around us.\u003c\/p\u003e -- John B. Cobb Jr., author of Spiritual Bankruptcy: A Prophetic Call to Action\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecommended for the panoramic vision holding this very substantive work together, its faithfulness to the pragmatic vision of democracy, and its responsiveness to dialogue with non-Western traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore, and author of Confucian Democracy: A Deweyan Reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: America and the Problem of Modernity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Worldview, Choice, and Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorldview as Issue and Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Worldview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDialogue, Tradition, and Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Ambiguity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 Conversational Aside: Dialogue and the Human Future \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed—and Relationalists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorporate Capitalism and the Abandonment of America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHating Reasonable Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeological and Relational Worldviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 Conversational Aside: On Relationality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Moral Disease: The Late-Modern Condition in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Modern Eclipse of America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: The American Bubble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Modernities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Individualism to Moral Disease\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 Conversational Aside: The Question of Soul \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven Glimpses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 Conversational Aside: The Ambiguity of Nothingness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Relational Worldview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Reappropriating Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: The Perspective of Nothingness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditional Wisdom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernity, Reappropriation, and Dialogue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostmodern Critique and Return of Wisdom \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Tradition and Democratic Spirit \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Contra Postmodernism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix Qualities of Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica and New Worldview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Reappropriating the Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 What We Can Learn from\/with China 101 The Mystery of Chinese Vitality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfucian Vision\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese-American Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Dialogue, Development, and Pluralism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree Pluralisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Going to Pittsburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDialogue and\/as Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuston Smith as Example\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Paradox and Relationality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Reviving Civic Virtue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 A Liberal Confession\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: American Challenge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Nearly Forgotten Subtradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Sixties Activism to Liberal Education \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: ’60s in Shanghai and Chicago \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Education as Reform \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaves of Discovery and Challenge \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturn of Relational Liberalism?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 American Clash and Revival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Clashing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReappropriating the American Vision\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Pragmatism Revisited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: A New Universalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on\/from the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractical Turn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractice in the Post-Traditional Era\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Education as Transformation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecision, Openness, Return\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpretation and Engagement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComponents of Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResistance, Faith, and Surrender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Liberal Education as Democratic Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaiming a Liberal Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeas and Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary Agenda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Democratic Curriculum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConversational Aside: Nihilists Annoyed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Democracy Somewhere\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042698133847,"sku":"9781793653352","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/overcoming-america-america-overcoming-reinventing-culture-and-being-at-home-in-the-world-in-the-age-of-pandemic-9781793653352","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}