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Author Han, Sang-Jin

Title Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity : Bringing Community Back to Human Rights in the Age of Global Risk Society
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages)
Series Post-Western Social Sciences and Global Knowledge Ser
Post-Western Social Sciences and Global Knowledge Ser
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Reflection on Paradoxical Modernity -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Asian Identity in Transformation -- 1 Conceptual Clarification -- 2 Economic Dimension of Identity Transformation -- 3 The Perception of Risk Society and Identity Transformation -- 4 Confucian Normative Potentialities for the Future -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2 PostConfucian Development beyond the Asian Values Debate -- 1 PostColoniality in the Global South and East Asia
2 Japan and Korea Compared -- 3 Different Traditions and Interpretations of Confucianism -- 4 Where Does East Asia Stand? -- 5 Lee Kuan Yew's Confucian Governance Model -- 6 Critical Evaluation -- 7 PostTraditional Interpretation of Confucianism -- Chapter 3 The Confucian Contribution to Human Rights -- 1 Methodological Inquires -- 2 The Human Rights Debate and Confucianism -- 3 A Balanced Confucian Approach to Human Rights -- 4 The Korean Trajectories of a PostConfucian Development -- 5 Zhongyong Revisited -- 6 Toward Overlapping Consensus
Chapter 4 Main Issues of Human Rights in the Context of East Asian Development -- 1 Economic Development and Human Rights -- 2 Political Democratization and Human Rights -- 3 East Asian Culture and Human Rights -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5 Individual Freedom and Flourishing Community: Searching for a Balance -- 1 What Is a Human Rights Community? -- 2 The Two Dimensions of a Human Rights Community -- 3 Three Relationships -- 4 Social Construction of Justice and Human Rights -- 5 Human Rights Community and Asian Culture -- 6 How to Read Chinese Discourses on Human Rights
7 School as a Human Rights Community -- 8 The Experiences of Human Rights Cities -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 The Confucian Norm of Minben and the SelfRule by Citizens of Gwangju: A Participatory Human Rights Community -- 1 Confucian Trajectory One: Authoritarian Approach to Community -- 2 Confucian Trajectory Two: Participatory Normative Approach -- 3 PostConfucian Approach to SelfDetermination in Gwangju -- 4 Three Puzzles of the Gwangju Uprising -- 5 Communitarian SelfRule as Human Rights -- Chapter 7 A Universal but NonHegemonic Approach to Human Rights in International Politics
1 Cosmopolitan Imagination of Differences and Diversities -- 2 Asian Values Debate and China -- 3 Tianxiaism Reconsidered -- 4 Zhao Tingyang's Theory of the Tianxia System -- 5 Chinese NonHegemonic Approach to Human Rights -- 6 Cosmopolitan Exploration for China -- Chapter 8 Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights in North Korea -- 1 Objective and Presuppositions -- 2 Two Methodological Clarifications -- 3 Three Steps towards Intercultural Dialogue -- 3.1 Why Theoretical Innovation? -- 3.2 Why Communitarian? -- 4 Three Types of Disputes over Human Rights -- 5 Toward OverLapping Consensus
Notes 6 China and North Korea's Two Human Rights Claims
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ISBN 9789004415492
9004415491