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Confucianism's Prospects
- A Reassessment
Engelsk Paperback

Confucianism's Prospects

- A Reassessment
Engelsk Paperback

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Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

In Confucianism''s Prospects, Shaun O''Dwyer offers a rare critical engagement with English language scholarship on Confucianism. Against the background of historical and sociological research into the rapid modernization of East Asian societies, O''Dwyer reviews several key Confucian ethical ideas and proposals for East Asian alternatives to liberal democracy that have emerged from this scholarship. He also puts the following question to Confucian scholars: what prospects do those ideas and proposals have in East Asian societies in which liberal democracy and pluralism are well established, and individualization and declining fertility are impacting deeply upon family life? In making his case, O''Dwyer draws upon the neglected work of Japanese philosophers and intellectuals who were witnesses to Japan''s pioneering East Asian modernization, and protagonists in the rise and disastrous wartime fall of its own modernized Confucianism. He contests a sometimes Sinocentric and ahistorical conception of East Asian societies as "Confucian societies," while also recognizing that Confucian traditions can contribute importantly to global philosophical dialogue, and to civic and religious life.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781438475486
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1438475489
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Udg. Dato:
2 jul 2020
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 jul 2020
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