Title: The problematic modernity of Confucianism: the question of “civil society” in Choso˘n dynasty Korea
Abstract: There has been an upsurge of interest in the past few decades in the rela tionship
between Confucianism and modernity in East Asia. This began in the arguments
about “Confucianism and capitalism” which have sought to overturn Max
Weber’s verdict on the incompatibility of Confucianism and capitalism and
explain the exceptional economic success of the East Asian region in terms of
certain “Confucian” values such as respect for authority and self-development
through education. In the past few years this effort to understand the links between
Confucianism and modernity has expanded to a much wider scope, as seen in
the 1997 launching in South Korea of a new journal, Chŏnt’ong kwa hyŏndae
(Tradition and Modernity), whose inaugural issue was devoted to the question of
“Confucianism and Twenty-first Century Korea.”1
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-02-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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