Stephen Rowe is a professor at Grand Valley State University.

Stephen Rowe is my favorite commentator on American culture, doing so with great nuance. In Overcoming America he has sought the deepest level of the malaise gripping our nation and found it in the dominant 'worldview.' The book arises from the richness of Rowe’s own dialogical life-experience, especially with American liberal education and the revival of traditional Chinese culture.

• Foreword: Martin E. MartyPart I America and the Problem of ModernityChapter 1: Worldview, Choice, and DialogueChapter 2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed — and Relationalists Chapter 3 Moral Disease and Nothingness:Chapter 4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven GlimpsesPart II Relational WorldviewChapter 5 Reappropriating TraditionChapter 6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility: Reappropriating the Modern Chapter 7 What We Can Learn From/With ChinaChapter 8 Dialogue, Development, and PluralismPart III Reviving Civic VirtueChapter 9 A Liberal ConfessionChapter 10 American Clash and RevivalChapter 11 Pragmatism RevisitedChapter 12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on/from the Practical TurnChapter 13 Liberal Education as Democratic PracticeConclusion: Democracy Somewhere

Stephen Rowe is a professor at Grand Valley State University.

Stephen Rowe is my favorite commentator on American culture, doing so with great nuance. In Overcoming America he has sought the deepest level of the malaise gripping our nation and found it in the dominant 'worldview.' The book arises from the richness of Rowe’s own dialogical life-experience, especially with American liberal education and the revival of traditional Chinese culture.

• Foreword: Martin E. MartyPart I America and the Problem of ModernityChapter 1: Worldview, Choice, and DialogueChapter 2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed — and Relationalists Chapter 3 Moral Disease and Nothingness:Chapter 4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven GlimpsesPart II Relational WorldviewChapter 5 Reappropriating TraditionChapter 6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility: Reappropriating the Modern Chapter 7 What We Can Learn From/With ChinaChapter 8 Dialogue, Development, and PluralismPart III Reviving Civic VirtueChapter 9 A Liberal ConfessionChapter 10 American Clash and RevivalChapter 11 Pragmatism RevisitedChapter 12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on/from the Practical TurnChapter 13 Liberal Education as Democratic PracticeConclusion: Democracy Somewhere

Stephen Rowe is a professor at Grand Valley State University.

Stephen Rowe is my favorite commentator on American culture, doing so with great nuance. In Overcoming America he has sought the deepest level of the malaise gripping our nation and found it in the dominant 'worldview.' The book arises from the richness of Rowe’s own dialogical life-experience, especially with American liberal education and the revival of traditional Chinese culture.

• Foreword: Martin E. MartyPart I America and the Problem of ModernityChapter 1: Worldview, Choice, and DialogueChapter 2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed — and Relationalists Chapter 3 Moral Disease and Nothingness:Chapter 4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven GlimpsesPart II Relational WorldviewChapter 5 Reappropriating TraditionChapter 6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility: Reappropriating the Modern Chapter 7 What We Can Learn From/With ChinaChapter 8 Dialogue, Development, and PluralismPart III Reviving Civic VirtueChapter 9 A Liberal ConfessionChapter 10 American Clash and RevivalChapter 11 Pragmatism RevisitedChapter 12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on/from the Practical TurnChapter 13 Liberal Education as Democratic PracticeConclusion: Democracy Somewhere