Confucianism and the Chinese Self [[electronic resource] ] : Re-examining Max Weber’s China / / by Jack Barbalet
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Barbalet Jack
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Confucianism and the Chinese Self [[electronic resource] ] : Re-examining Max Weber’s China / / by Jack Barbalet
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XV, 213 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 181 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, Asian |
| Social sciences—Philosophy | |
| Political philosophy | |
| China—History | |
| Non-Western Philosophy | |
| Social Theory | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| History of China | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- China in Germany -- Confucianism -- Daoism -- Self-interest -- Magic -- Capitalism. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Confucianism and the Chinese Self |
| ISBN: | 981-10-6289-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255220503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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