In 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.

In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague 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. He points to a way out of this current and potentially fatal malaise: 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.

.cs676C7CC9{text-align: left;text-indent:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt}.cs5EFED22F{color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-family: Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; }This book 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.

An inquiry into how westerners can tap into their own philosophical and spiritual traditions to grow beyond their unsteadiness of relations, inner dullness, and underlying absence of vision or orientation; and become more alert, compassionate, and intelligent. Reviews the Zen worldview and such western traditions as the mystical Christ, Socrates, a