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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790777103321

Autore

Chen Weigang

Titolo

Confucian marxism : a reflection on religion and global justice / / by Weigang Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-25593-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Ideas, history, and modern china ; ; Volume 6

Disciplina

299.5/12172

Soggetti

Communism and religion - China

Communism - China

Confucianism - China

Religion and state - China

China Civilization Confucian influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Religion, Civil Society, and the Challenge of Global Justice -- 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 -- 4. Hegemony and Democracy -- 5. Class Consciousness or Ethical Hegemony? -- 6. The Confucian Turn: New Democracy and Ethical Hegemony -- 7. Communal Cults and World Religions -- 8. God’s Justice on Earth: Sittlichkeit versus the Ethical State -- 9. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 1) -- 10. Public Hegemony and Sectlike Society (Part 2) -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.