As rapid economic development brings increasing uncertainty in East
Asia, interest in a new version of republicanism, termed iscalled
neo-Roman republicanism, is growing across the region.
Conceptualized as liberty as non-domination, this new form of
republicanism has inspired not only Western but also East Asian
political theorists. However, neo-Roman republican ideas in
Northeast Asian countries continue to face serious conceptual and
political challenges, which scholarly literature on both
republicanism and on East Asian politics has largely failed to
confront. This book addresses these challenges by surveying the
latest theoretical contributions to the studies of republicanism in
Western countries and the latest interpretations of how
republicanism, including both communitarian republicanism and
neo-Roman republicanism, has been appropriated in countries in East
Asia. In particular, it deals with the key question of whether
liberty as non-domination can work in non-Western contexts where
the fundamental tenets of liberal democracy, such as moral
individualism and value pluralism, do not predominate. Across three
sections, the chapters first provide a conceptual overview of
republicanism as a global political theory, they then consider how
republicanism has historically been received, resisted, and
translated into East Asia., and Ffinally, they examine how
historically informed possibilities fit with the emergent needs of
contemporary Northeast Asian societies. Overall, the contributors
show that republicanism is an always-ongoing project, whose terms
must be interpreted and translated into the various communities
they inform. Normative considerations about whether or how
republicanism applies in East Asia cannot be divorced from
historical and empirical approaches which consider the various ways
in which republican ideals reflect the realities of life there.
Dealing with the issue of republicanism from a new, comparative
perspective, this book will have broad appeal to students and
scholars of Asian studies, comparative political theory, political
philosophy, sociology, and history.
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