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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chen, Weigang.

Series:

Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 6.

Ideas, history, and modern china ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and religion--China.

Communism and religion.

Communism--China.

Communism.

Confucianism--China.

Confucianism.

Religion and state--China.

Religion and state.

China--Civilization--Confucian influences.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-25593-1

OCLC:

862610926

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004255937 DOI