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New Confucianism
John Makeham
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Description for New Confucianism
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one that has been mostly retrospectively created. The questions that contributors to this book seek to answer about this neo-conservative philosophical movement include: 'What has been the cross-fertilization between Chinese scholars in China and overseas made possible by the shared discourse of Confucianism?'; 'To what extent does this discourse transcend geographical, political, cultural, and ideological divides?'; 'Why do so many Chinese intellectuals equate Confucianism with Chinese cultural identity?'; and 'Does the Confucian ... Read more
This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one that has been mostly retrospectively created. The questions that contributors to this book seek to answer about this neo-conservative philosophical movement include: 'What has been the cross-fertilization between Chinese scholars in China and overseas made possible by the shared discourse of Confucianism?'; 'To what extent does this discourse transcend geographical, political, cultural, and ideological divides?'; 'Why do so many Chinese intellectuals equate Confucianism with Chinese cultural identity?'; and 'Does the Confucian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349526529
SKU
V9781349526529
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99-15
About John Makeham
JOHN MAKEHAM is Reader in Chinese, Centre for Asian Studies, Adelaide University. For most of the last decade he has worked in the area of pre-modern Confucian intellectual history. Between 1993-2001 he studied the Chinese commentary tradition on the Analects from the second to the nineteenth centuries, a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism (Transmitters ... Read more
Reviews for New Confucianism
"In the early twentieth century, Confucianism was declared dead, both as an intellectual movement and as a social force. However, Confucianism has now been rehabilitated in mainland China, and is increasingly influential as a world philosophy. Both its critics and its admirers must admit that the most influential contemporary version of Confucianism is the so-called 'New Confucianism.' The essays in ... Read more