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208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, Islam in Malaysia and the Panca Sila in... Read more
Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Communitarian Politics in Asia Chua Beng Huat 2. Communitarian Philosophy and East Asian Politics Daniel A. Bell 3. Predicament of Communality: Lessons from Japan Tatsuo Inoue 4. The Anti-Communitarian Family? Everyday Conditions of Authoritarian Politics in South Korea Chang Kyung Sup 5. Communitarianism Without Competitive Politics in Singapore Chua Beng Huat 6. The Ethics of Care and Political Practices in Hong Kong Ho Mun Chan 7. Shariah Formalism or Democratic Communitarianism? The Islamic Resurgence and Political Theory 8. The Failure of State Ideology in Indonesia: The Rise and Demise of Pancasila Vedi R Hadiz 9. 'Community in the East' Towards a New Human Rights Paradigm Anthony Woodiwiss
Biography
Chua Beng Huat is concurrently Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster Leader, Asia Research Institute and Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
