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Confucianism's Prospects: A Reassessment

Confucianism's Prospects: A Reassessment

O'Dwyer, Shaun

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

PhilosophyReligion General Confucianism

ISBN10: 1438475489
ISBN13: 9781438475486
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 1 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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