Format:
1 Online-Ressource (370 pages)
ISBN:
9780739181010
Series Statement:
Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Content:
The negative effects brought about by the domination of Western-centrism are pervasive and serious in academic disciplines as well as in everyday life of South Korea. The essays in this book address the study of contemporary Korean political thought on the premise that such a study should be implemented with a post-Eurocentric approach
Content:
Contemporary Korean Political Thought In Search Of A Post-Eurocentric Approach -- Contents -- Notes on Names and Asian Characters -- Foreword -- Preface/Acknowledgments -- Introduction Contemporary Korean Political Thought in Search of a Post-Eurocentric Approach -- Part 1 Theorizing Contemporary Korean Politics -- 1 The Ideological Terrain of Contemporary Korean Politics: From the Perspective of the Dialectic of Non-Simultaneity -- 2 How the National Division and the Korean War Affected South Korean Politics: The Notions of "Liberty," "Democracy," and "Welfare -- 3 Liberalism and Modern State-Building in South Korea -- 4 The Politics and Political Science of the Clash of Civilizations: A Preliminary Study of the Intellectual Identity of Korean Political Science -- 5 Dongnipsinmun and Republican Democracy in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea -- Part 2 Koreanization of Western Political Thought -- 6 Redefining Citizenship in the Multicultural Society: A Korean Case -- 7 Civil Patriotism and Liberal Collectivism in South Korea: A Sentimentalist Approach -- 8 Western Feminism and Korean Feminism -- 9 A Study on the Acceptance of Rousseau's Thought and Current Research in Korea -- 10 Rawls in Korea -- Part 3 Modernizing Traditional East Asian Political Thought -- 11 The Concept of the "Public" in Traditional Korea and Its Modern Variation -- 12 A Constitutionalist Interpretation of Confucian Politics in the Early Joseon Dynasty -- 13 The Confucian Tradition and Democracy in Korean Political Thought: The Distance between Mínběn(民本) and Mínzhŭ (民主) and Its Implications -- 14 Liberalist Human Rights and the Confucian Ethics of Human Relationships -- 15 Confucian Statesman and Mature Democracy: Ahn Cheol-soo's "Uprising -- Contributors Biography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780739181003
Additional Edition:
Print version Dong Jin, Jang Contemporary Korean Political Thought in Search of a Post-Eurocentric Approach Lanham, MD : Lexington Books,c2014 ISBN 9780739181003
Language:
English
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