Screen LibraryConfucian democracy in East Asia : theory and practice /
"This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and meritocratic elitism. The book constructs a mode of public reason (and reasoning) that is morally palatable to East Asians who are still saturated in Confucian customs by reappropriating Confucian familialism, and using this perspective to theorize on Confucian democratic welfarism and political merit |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index. |
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9781107049031 (hardback) : 1107049032 (hardback) 9781107641211 (paperback) 1107641217 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | JQ1499 |
| CLC: | D731.009 |
| Call Number: | D731.009/K494 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Toward Confucian democratic theory -- Part I. Beyond Thick Confucian Communitarianism and Meritocratic Elitism: 1. Beyond thick Confucian Communitarianism I: The Confucian social self and its discontent; 2. Beyond think Confucian Communitarism II: Toward civil Confucianism; 3. Against meritocratic elitism -- Part II. Confucian Democracy in Theory: A Pluralist Reconstruction: 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 |