Overcoming America / America overcoming : can we survive modernity? /
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 bec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; 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; Notes; 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; Notes; 3 Moral Disease; The Modern Eclipse of America; Conversational Aside; Two Modernities; From Individualism to Moral Disease; Notes.