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Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan (Hardcover)
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Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan (Hardcover)
Series: Handbooks on Japanese Studies
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In mainstream assessments of Confucianism's modern genealogy there
is a Sinocentric bias which is, in part, the result of a general
neglect of modern Japanese Confucianism by political and moral
philosophers and intellectual historians during the post-war era.
This collection of essays joins a small group of other studies
bringing modern Japanese Confucianism to international scholarly
notice, largely covering the time period between the Bakumatsu era
of the mid-19th century and the 21st century. The essays in this
volume can be read for the insight they provide into the
intellectual and ideological proclivities of reformers, educators
and philosophers explicitly reconstructing Confucian thought, or
more tacitly influenced by it, during critical phases in Japan's
modernization, imperialist expansionism and post-1945
reconstitution as a liberal democratic polity. They can be read as
introductions to the ideas of modern Japanese Confucian thinkers
and reformers whose work is little known outside Japan-and
sometimes barely remembered inside Japan. They can also be read as
a needful corrective to the above-mentioned Sinocentric bias in the
20th century intellectual history of Confucianism. For those
Confucian scholars currently exploring how Confucianism is, or can
be made compatible with democracy, at least some of the studies in
this volume serve as a warning. They enjoin readers to consider how
Confucianism was also rendered compatible with the authoritarian
ultranationalism and militarism that captured Japan's political
system in the 1930s, and brought war to the Asia-Pacific region.
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