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Confucianism, Law, and Democracy in Contemporary Korea
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2015
Summary
Comparative political theory has grown into a recognized discipline in its own right in the last two decades. Yet little has been done to explore how political theory engages with the actual social, legal, and political reality of a particular polity. East Asians are complexly conditioned by traditional Confucian norms and habits, despite significant social, economic, and political changes in their contemporary lives. This volume seeks to address this important issue by developing a specifically Confucian political and legal theory.
The volume focuses on South Korea, whose traditional society was and remains the most Confucianized among pre-modern East Asian countries. It offers an interesting case for thinking about Confucian democracy and constitutionalism because its liberal-democratic institutions are compatible with and profoundly influenced by the Confucian habit of the heart. The book wrestles with the practical meaning of liberal rights under the Korean Confucian societal culture and illuminates a way in which traditional Confucianism can be transformed through legal and political processes into a new Confucianism relevant to democratic practices in contemporary Korea.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-78348-223-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-78348-225-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
225
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1 Conceptualizing Korean Constitutionalism No access
2 Confucianism That Confounds No access
3 Locating Feminism beyond Gender and Culture No access
4 Civil Confucianism in South Korea No access
5 Qualitative Defects of Korean Constitutional Democracy and Political Rationalism as a Confucian Legacy No access
6 Confucianism and the Meaning of Liberalism in the Contemporary Korean Legal System No access
7 Confucius for Our Time No access
8 On Confucian Constitutionalism in Korea No access
