Overcoming America, America overcoming : can we survive modernity? / Stephen Rowe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rowe, Stephen C., 1945-
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > Philosophy.
Democracy > United States.
Physical Description:xvii, 229 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Worldview, choice, and dialogue
  • Ideologues, nihilists, and the depressed
  • Moral disease and nothingness: the late modern condition in America
  • Nothingness and gift
  • Reappropriating tradition
  • Dialogue as democratic possibility: reappropriating the modern
  • What we can learn from/with China
  • Dialogue, development, and pluralism
  • A liberal confession
  • American clash and revival
  • Pragmatism revisited
  • Democratic life, American hope: a meditation on/from the practical turn
  • Liberal education as democratic practice.