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Informationen zum Autor Stephen C. Rowe is founding chair of the Liberal Studies Program at Grand Valley State University and chair of GVSU's pluralistic Philosophy Department. Klappentext On the moral decay surrounding the collapse of the modern worldview with its isolated and competitive individualism, abstraction and mechanism. Also on the dynamics of emerging, relational worldview and vision of human development/maturity necessary to the human future beyond the societal upheaval and reorder caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
