Sungmoon Kim

Confucian Democracy in East Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107641211
• ISBN-10: 1107641217
• Artikelnr.: 40129453

Autorenporträt

Sungmoon Kim is Associate Professor of Political Theory at City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Beyond Thick Confucian Communitarianism and Meritocratic Elitism: 1. The Confucian social self and its discontent
2. Toward civil Confucianism
3. Against meritocratic elitism
Part II. A Pluralist Reconstruction of Confucian Democracy: 4. Value pluralism and Confucian democratic civil society
5. Confucian familialism and public reasoning
6. In defense of Confucian democratic welfarism
7. Rethinking political meritocracy: selection plus two
Part III. Paving an Exemplary Path: The Korean Case: 8. Motivating and legitimating Confucian democracy: the politics of Ch¿ng
9. Public reason and the liberalism of human rights
10. Confucian civility and expressive liberty
11. Confucianizing multiculturalism.