Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice

by Sungmoon Kim

Book Overview

This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and meritocratic elitism. The book constructs a mode of public reason (and reasoning) that is morally palatable to East Asians who are still saturated in Confucian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107641217
• ISBN13: 9781107641211
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"