Beng Huat Chua

Communitarian Politics in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in Indonesia. Here, communitarianism arguably informs public policies and political practices and the concept of the 'social' in terms of responsibilities and collective welfare is preserved.

Communitarian Politics in Asia examines instances in southeast and east Asian countries where communitarianism is both articulated as national ideology and embedded as the ethos of social life and assesses the relative merits of a set of practices in their respective local political context. The book not only augments existing international debate on liberalism and communitarianism but also provides empirical examples of communitarian political practices that will substantiate and/or refute conceptual points, such as redistributive justice and costs to individuals, in this ongoing debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134312795
• Artikelnr.: 47884554

Autorenporträt

Chua Beng Huat is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Communitarian Politics in Asia
Chua Beng Huat 2. Communitarian Philosophy and East Asian Politics Daniel
A. Bell 3. Predicament of Communality: Lessons from Japan Tatsuo Inoue 4.
The Anti-Communitarian Family? Everyday Conditions of Authoritarian
Politics in South Korea Chang Kyung Sup 5. Communitarianism Without
Competitive Politics in Singapore Chua Beng Huat 6. The Ethics of Care and
Political Practices in Hong Kong Ho Mun Chan 7. Shariah Formalism or
Democratic Communitarianism? The Islamic Resurgence and Political Theory 8.
The Failure of State Ideology in Indonesia: The Rise and Demise of
Pancasila Vedi R Hadiz 9. 'Community in the East' Towards a New Human
Rights Paradigm Anthony Woodiwiss