Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity
Subtitle: Bringing Community Back to Human Rights in the Age of Global Risk Society
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789004352551
Subjects: Confucianism; Human rights, asia; East and west; Civilization, modern; East asia, social conditions
Description: "Discourses of modernity are abundant. Many distinguished scholars, with diverse intellectual backgrounds, have engaged in a critical reflection on the fundamental deficiencies of Western modernity. What comes out of these confrontations with the Western tradition of enlightenment and modernity, however, is far from being uniform. On the contrary, the proposed solutions are so divergent that one is liable to end up highly confused. For instance, conflicting philosophical positions with labels such as post- colonialism, de- colonialism, post- modernity, late- modernity, second modernity have been proposed, and are busy contesting each other"--