Confucian marxism : a reflection on religion and global justice
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Confucian marxism : a reflection on religion and global justice
(Ideas, history, and modern China, v. 6)
Brill, 2014
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-329) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Buttressed by an autocratic system, China's colossal economic growth over the past decades seems to have had the paradoxical effect of undermining the foundation of Western domination but at the same time invigorating Eurocentricism. In particular, it highlights the current relevance of the central conviction of Weber's Orient: the absence of civic roots in non-Western societies will create a kind of "uncivic" capitalist system in which one has no choice but to seek to compensate for instabilities through authoritarian institutions. Does this mean that the West may alone afford to harmonize political stability with the universalistic ideal of justice as the basic structure of society? If not, how then is it possible to develop a notion of the primacy of social justice that transcends the limits of liberal democracy? This book aims at addressing these timely questions by drawing on "Confucian Marxism"-a distinctive perspective on civil society.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Religion, Civil Society, and the Challenge of Global Justice
Part I Class and the Protestant Ethic
1. Religion and the Problem of the "Social"
2. Class and Economic Interaction: Historical Materialism as a Theory of Liberal Modernity
3. Legitimation versus Theodicy: Weber's Comparative Religion
Part II The Confucian Turn
4. Hegemony and Democracy
5. Class Consciousness or Ethical Hegemony?
6. The Confucian Turn: New Democracy and Ethical Hegemony
Part III Confucian Marxism and the Protestant Social
7. The Issue of "Asiatic Intellectuality"
8. God's Justice on Earth: Sittlichkeit versus the Ethical State
9. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society
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