The Confucian Political Imagination

• Main Author: Møllgaard, Eske J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy, Asian.; Political theory.; China-History.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Political Theory.; History of China.

This book critically examines the Confucian political imagination and its influence on the contemporary Chinese dream of a powerful China. It views Confucianism as the ideological supplement to a powerful state that is challenging Western hegemony, and not as a political philosophy that need not con...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Confucian Challenge
• 2. The Imaginary
• 3. The Discourse
• 4. The Revivals
• 5. Humanism
• 6. Civility
• 7. Decline of the Great Unity
• 8. Can Confucianism be Universalized?