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Overcoming America / America Overcoming - Can We Survive Modernity? (Hardcover, New)
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Overcoming America / America Overcoming - Can We Survive Modernity? (Hardcover, New)
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argues that the moral disease and political paralysis of 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,
and that the way out of the current and potentially fatal malaise
is to join other societies which are struggling to move beyond the
modern - though conscious reappropriation of those elements of
tradition which have to do with cultivation of the mature human
being. In order for this reappropriation to avoid fundamentalism,
it must be undertaken in dialogue with persons from other societies
who also have come to recognize the unsustainable quality of the
modern life-way, and who are committed to parallel processes of
reappropriation, as well as to the commonality of dialogue and
democracy as the pluralistic ground upon which this becomes
possible. This orientation is distinguished not only from
fundamentalism, with its dangerous recoil from life in the modern
present to assert an absolutized tradition, but also from
nihilistic terrorism which reacts to the discovery of modern
limitations through the indiscriminate wish to tear it down. The
emerging global ethic and spirituality this book supports by way
providing resources of articulation and interpretation thus entails
an encounter with the real possibility of collapse and death,
movement beyond the nihilistic conclusion into affirmation of the
gift-quality of life and Nothingness as ineffable wellspring of
life, and the ongoing dialogue between traditional and modern
values (each valuable, each problematic) through which reliable
policy and healthy living become possible.
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