1st Edition

Machiavelli in Northeast Asia

Edited By Jun-Hyeok Kwak Copyright 2022
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia, this book explores a better East-West dialogue through which Machiavelli’s political philosophy can be appropriated properly in Northeast Asian practices. First, comparing the receptions of Machiavelli in Europe with the early introduction of his texts in Northeast Asia, it... Read more

Part I: General Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction: Machiavelli and Northeast Asia

Jun-Hyeok KWAK

Part II: Three Imperative Issues in Northeast Asia

Chapter 2: Machiavelli’s Republicanism

Nathan TARCOV

Chapter 3: Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Prudential Political Realism

LIU Wei

Chapter 4: The Book of Lord Shang Compared with Machiavelli and Hobbes

Markus FISCHER

Part III: Receptions of Machiavelli, West and East

Chapter 5: Machiavelli’s Fortune Lines of Reception of his Works in Europe

Giovanni GIORGINI

Chapter 6: The Introduction of Machiavelli’s Works and Thoughts into China

LIU Xunlian, LIU Xuehao and CAO Qin

Chapter 7- Machiavelli and the Intellectuals of Modern Japan

Koichiro MATSUDA

Part IV: Reinterpreting Machiavelli in the Northeast Asian Context

Chapter 8: Machiavelli and Han Fei Zi – A Comparison

Gabriella STANCHINA and Tongdong BAI

Chapter 9: The Prince between Confucianism and Machiavellianism: Inoue Kowashi on Statecraft and Political Morality

Takashi KIBE

Chapter 10: "Seek Harmony but not Uniformity"—Machiavelli’s Political Thought in the Chinese Context

Demin DUAN

Biography

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.