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America is in the process of overcoming the modern, which is expressed negatively as hyper-individualism, materialism, moral disease, fundamentalism, and nihilistic terrorism. In its positive expression the modern develops beyond itself, into a post-traditional ethic and spirituality in which it becomes possible to affirm life and reappropriate the wisdom of traditions, in a genuinely pluralistic environment of dialogue, continuous growth, and ever-expanding horizons of "liberty and justice for all."

List of 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

About the author

By Stephen C. Rowe

Product details

• Authors: Stephen C. Rowe
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780739183168
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8316-8
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, Globalization, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Political ideologies and movements