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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788150403321

Titolo

Confucianism, law, and democracy in contemporary Korea / / edited by Sungmoon Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-224-9

1-78348-225-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

CEACOP East Asian Comparative Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of Law

Disciplina

320.95195

Soggetti

Law - Korea (South)

Democracy - Korea (South)

Confucianism - Korea (South)

Korea (South) Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: In Search of Confucian Constitutionalism in the Korean Context; 1 Conceptualizing Korean Constitutionalism; 2 Confucianism That Confounds; 3 Locating Feminism beyond Gender and Culture; 4 Civil Confucianism in South Korea; II: Liberalism, Democracy, and Confucianism: Doubts and Hopes; 5 Qualitative Defects of Korean Constitutional Democracy and Political Rationalism as a Confucian Legacy; 6 Confucianism and the Meaning of Liberalism in the Contemporary Korean Legal System; 7 Confucius for Our Time; III: Epilogue; 8 On Confucian Constitutionalism in Korea

AcknowledgmentsIndex; About the Authors